HTML to XML

[Zürcher See]

I use a httpWebrequest to download an html page as string, then I would like
to have xml document, but html and xml are "incompatible"
There is a way to convert html to xml?

[Zürcher See]

Thank's, I've found a free source code to do that, if someone is
intrested...

SgmlReader 1.1

SgmlReader is an XmlReader API over any SGML document. A command line
utility is also provided which outputs the well formed XML result. HTML is
an SGML grammar, so you can use this tool to convert HTML into well-formed
XML.

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/U...4-c3bd760564bc

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I use a httpWebrequest to download an html page as string, then I would like to have xml document, but html and xml are "incompatible"
There is a way to convert html to xml?

[Christoph Schittko [MVP]]

That depends on how well formed the HTML source is. Most likely the answer
is "no", since the HTML format allows for tags without a closing element.
<br> for example does not need a closing </br> tag. Some people do write
their HTML that it's compatible with XML. They write <br /> for example, to
fake an empty XML element when HTML tag does not have a closing tag, but
that doesn't help you if you're looking to retreive arbitrary pages.

You can embed XML data islands into an HTML page, but it doesn't sound like
that this is what you are trying to do.
If you are just looking to load an HTML page into a DOM, then you can
instantiate an Internet Explorer control and have it load the HTML
programmatically. Then you can traverse the DOM in a manner similar to an
XmlDocument. Maybe you can walk the IE DOM to populate an XmlDocument is
that solves your problem.

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Christoph Schittko [MVP]
Software Architect, .NET Mentor

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I use a httpWebrequest to download an html page as string, then I would like to have xml document, but html and xml are "incompatible"
There is a way to convert html to xml?

[eran_aharonovich]

Hi,

Using the Internet Explorer is good enough if your application is a client application and you sit in front of the computer waiting for it to be over because IE can display messageboxes when it bumps into javascript errors.

It's not meant for server processing.

If you do want it to be clean you will have to convert the HTML to XML with a third party tool.

You can try this component:
HTML TO XML
It's currently free.