Hi everyone, I can't seem to retrieve the value of a node using the function htmldoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("xpath path").
I would like to read the value of the tag in the example at the end of the source <font color 'mediumseagreen' >BUY-IF</font>.
I tried passing to the function the path /html/body/table/tbody/tr/td/table[5]/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td[4]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr/td/font but the function return null.
Someone can help me?
Thanks
C# CODE
public static HtmlDocument ParseHtml(string URL)
{
HtmlDocument hDoc = new HtmlDocument();
try
{
WebClient wClient = new WebClient();
byte[] bData = wClient.DownloadData(URL);
hDoc.LoadHtml(ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(bData));
}
catch
{
hDoc.LoadHtml("");
}
return hDoc;
}
HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument htmldoc = ParseHtml(url);
HtmlNode hNode = htmldoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("/html/body/table/tbody/tr/td/table[5]/tbody/tr/td/table/tbody/tr/td[4]/table/tbody/tr[2]/td/table/tbody/tr/td/font")
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Last Update
24/9/2012
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25/9/2012
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BMPS.MI
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<td height="40" colspan="5"><font
size="2"><b>
BANCA MONTE DEI PASCHI DI SIENA ORD
</b>
<br>
FTSE MIB
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<td height="35" valign="top"><font size="2"><b>Daily Commentary</b></font><br><br>
<div style="font-size:9px;font-family:verdana">
<p align="justify">
Our system posted a
<font color="mediumseagreen">BUY-IF</font>
....