Extract Data from HTML source

[Leon]

Please help, I'm trying to grab some data from some html source. I'm using
VB.NET (2003).

Below is a snippet of the html source:
<div class="Individualdetails" id="Individual">Mark Long</p><p>
8823 Big Mark Drive<br/>Showtown, AL 12345</p><p>Phone: (205)
555-5000<br/>Fax: (205)
555-5555</p></div>

The following is the results i need in a table:
Name: Mark Long
Address: 8823 Big Mark Drive
City: Showtown
State: AL
ZipCode: 12345
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Basically i'm having trouble building the regular expression needed to pull
this data and
i'm looking for guidance in the right direction. Any help would be greatly
appreciated!

[Flinky Wisty Pomm]

A Regex isn't necessarily the best solution here. If you have a
guarantee that your document will be XHTML compliant (and your <br />
will always be an empty, closed tag) you could load it up into an
XmlReader and step through the nodes. That's one way.

There's an HTML munging library out there that was mentioned in a post
the other day. I'll see if I can dig the link back out because that
looked quite slick. I think a regex here is probably not the optimal
solution, though it's possible.

Leon wrote:

Please help, I'm trying to grab some data from some html source. I'm using
VB.NET (2003).

Below is a snippet of the html source:
<div class="Individualdetails" id="Individual">Mark Long</p><p>
8823 Big Mark Drive<br/>Showtown, AL 12345</p><p>Phone: (205)
555-5000<br/>Fax: (205)
555-5555</p></div>

The following is the results i need in a table:
Name: Mark Long
Address: 8823 Big Mark Drive
City: Showtown
State: AL
ZipCode: 12345
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Basically i'm having trouble building the regular expression needed to pull
this data and
i'm looking for guidance in the right direction. Any help would be greatly
appreciated!

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

its probably the html agility pack

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...tmlagilitypack
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"Flinky Wisty Pomm" <Pa********@gmail.comwrote in message
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>A Regex isn't necessarily the best solution here. If you have a
guarantee that your document will be XHTML compliant (and your <br />
will always be an empty, closed tag) you could load it up into an
XmlReader and step through the nodes. That's one way.

There's an HTML munging library out there that was mentioned in a post
the other day. I'll see if I can dig the link back out because that
looked quite slick. I think a regex here is probably not the optimal
solution, though it's possible.

Leon wrote:

>Please help, I'm trying to grab some data from some html source. I'm
using
VB.NET (2003).

Below is a snippet of the html source:
<div class="Individualdetails" id="Individual">Mark Long</p><p>
8823 Big Mark Drive<br/>Showtown, AL 12345</p><p>Phone: (205)
555-5000<br/>Fax: (205)
555-5555</p></div>

The following is the results i need in a table:
Name: Mark Long
Address: 8823 Big Mark Drive
City: Showtown
State: AL
ZipCode: 12345
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Basically i'm having trouble building the regular expression needed to
pull
this data and
i'm looking for guidance in the right direction. Any help would be
greatly
appreciated!

[Flinky Wisty Pomm]

That's the puppy.
John Timney (MVP) wrote:

its probably the html agility pack

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...tmlagilitypack
--
--
Regards

John Timney (MVP)
VISIT MY WEBSITE:
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog
"Flinky Wisty Pomm" <Pa********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11*********************@e3g2000cwe.googlegrou ps.com...

A Regex isn't necessarily the best solution here. If you have a
guarantee that your document will be XHTML compliant (and your <br />
will always be an empty, closed tag) you could load it up into an
XmlReader and step through the nodes. That's one way.

There's an HTML munging library out there that was mentioned in a post
the other day. I'll see if I can dig the link back out because that
looked quite slick. I think a regex here is probably not the optimal
solution, though it's possible.

Leon wrote:

Please help, I'm trying to grab some data from some html source. I'm
using
VB.NET (2003).

Below is a snippet of the html source:
<div class="Individualdetails" id="Individual">Mark Long</p><p>
8823 Big Mark Drive<br/>Showtown, AL 12345</p><p>Phone: (205)
555-5000<br/>Fax: (205)
555-5555</p></div>

The following is the results i need in a table:
Name: Mark Long
Address: 8823 Big Mark Drive
City: Showtown
State: AL
ZipCode: 12345
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Basically i'm having trouble building the regular expression needed to
pull
this data and
i'm looking for guidance in the right direction. Any help would be
greatly
appreciated!

[Leon]

Could you give me an example please!

"Flinky Wisty Pomm" <Pa********@gmail.comwrote in message
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That's the puppy.
John Timney (MVP) wrote:

>its probably the html agility pack

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...tmlagilitypack
--
--
Regards

John Timney (MVP)
VISIT MY WEBSITE:
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog
"Flinky Wisty Pomm" <Pa********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11*********************@e3g2000cwe.googlegro ups.com...

>A Regex isn't necessarily the best solution here. If you have a
guarantee that your document will be XHTML compliant (and your <br />
will always be an empty, closed tag) you could load it up into an
XmlReader and step through the nodes. That's one way.

There's an HTML munging library out there that was mentioned in a post
the other day. I'll see if I can dig the link back out because that
looked quite slick. I think a regex here is probably not the optimal
solution, though it's possible.

Leon wrote:

Please help, I'm trying to grab some data from some html source. I'm
using
VB.NET (2003).

Below is a snippet of the html source:
<div class="Individualdetails" id="Individual">Mark Long</p><p>
8823 Big Mark Drive<br/>Showtown, AL 12345</p><p>Phone: (205)
555-5000<br/>Fax: (205)
555-5555</p></div>

The following is the results i need in a table:
Name: Mark Long
Address: 8823 Big Mark Drive
City: Showtown
State: AL
ZipCode: 12345
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Basically i'm having trouble building the regular expression needed to
pull
this data and
i'm looking for guidance in the right direction. Any help would be
greatly
appreciated!

[John Timney \(MVP\)]

Do a search on google, thers lots of blog examples of using it, so you
should be able to get started

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John Timney (MVP)
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http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog
"Leon" <vn*****@msn.comwrote in message
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Could you give me an example please!

"Flinky Wisty Pomm" <Pa********@gmail.comwrote in message
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>That's the puppy.
John Timney (MVP) wrote:

>>its probably the html agility pack

http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.as...tmlagilitypack
--
--
Regards

John Timney (MVP)
VISIT MY WEBSITE:
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog
"Flinky Wisty Pomm" <Pa********@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11*********************@e3g2000cwe.googlegr oups.com...
A Regex isn't necessarily the best solution here. If you have a
guarantee that your document will be XHTML compliant (and your <br />
will always be an empty, closed tag) you could load it up into an
XmlReader and step through the nodes. That's one way.

There's an HTML munging library out there that was mentioned in a post
the other day. I'll see if I can dig the link back out because that
looked quite slick. I think a regex here is probably not the optimal
solution, though it's possible.

Leon wrote:

Please help, I'm trying to grab some data from some html source. I'm
using
VB.NET (2003).

Below is a snippet of the html source:
<div class="Individualdetails" id="Individual">Mark Long</p><p>
8823 Big Mark Drive<br/>Showtown, AL 12345</p><p>Phone: (205)
555-5000<br/>Fax: (205)
555-5555</p></div>

The following is the results i need in a table:
Name: Mark Long
Address: 8823 Big Mark Drive
City: Showtown
State: AL
ZipCode: 12345
Phone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

Basically i'm having trouble building the regular expression needed
to
pull
this data and
i'm looking for guidance in the right direction. Any help would be
greatly
appreciated!