Html Agility Pack: DescendantsOrSelf() not returning HTML element
- by Program.X
I have some HTML, eg:
<%@ Page Title="About Us" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Site.master" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeBehind="ContentManagedTargetPage.aspx.cs" Inherits="xxx.ContentManagedTargetPage" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="CxCMS" Namespace="xxx.ContentManagement.ASPNET.UI" Assembly="xxx.ContentManagement.ASPNET" %>
<asp:Content ID="HeaderContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="HeadContent">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ID="BodyContent" runat="server" ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent">
<h2>
Content Managed
</h2>
<p>
Put content here.
[<CxCMS:ContentManagedPlaceHolder Key="keyThingy" runat="server" />]
</p>
</asp:Content>
And I want to find all the instances of the CxCMS:ContentManagedPlaceHolder element.
I'm using HTML Agility Pack, which seems the best fit.
However, despite looking at the [meagre] documentation, I can't get my code to work.
I would expect the following to work:
string searchForElement = "CxCMS:ContentManagedPlaceHolder";
IEnumerable<HtmlNode> contentPlaceHolderHtmlNodes = HtmlDocument.DocumentNode.Descendants(searchForElement);
int count = contentPlaceHolderHtmlNodes.Count();
But I get nothing back.
If I change to DescendantsOrSelf, I get the document node back, "#document" - which is incorrect:
string searchForElement = "CxCMS:ContentManagedPlaceHolder";
IEnumerable<HtmlNode> contentPlaceHolderHtmlNodes = HtmlDocument.DocumentNode.DescendantsOrSelf(searchForElement);
int count = contentPlaceHolderHtmlNodes.Count();
I also tried using LINQ:
string searchForElement = "CxCMS:ContentManagedPlaceHolder";
IEnumerable<HtmlNode> contentPlaceHolderHtmlNodes = HtmlDocument.DocumentNode.DescendantsOrSelf().Where(q=>q.Name==searchForElement);
int count = contentPlaceHolderHtmlNodes.Count();
As neither of these methods work, I moved onto using SelectNodes, instead:
string searchForElement = "CxCMS:ContentManagedPlaceHolder";
string xPath="//"+searchForElement // "//CxCMS:ContentManagedPlaceHolder"
var nodes= HtmlDocument.DocumentNode.SelectNodes(xPath);
This just throws the exception: "Namespace Manager or XsltContext needed. This query has a prefix, variable, or user-defined function.". I can't find any way of adding namespace management to the HtmlDocument object.
What am I missing, here? The DescendantsOrSelf() method works if using a "standard" HTML tag, such as "p", but not the one I have. Surely it should work? (It needs to!)
