Finding links in email

[Brett]

I'd like to find URLs inside of an email message. If there is anything
between the <a></a>, I'd like to also get that and associate it with the URL
in the <a> tag.

Content between the <a></a> might be text or an image. The <img> tag will
also have a URL, which I need to get. It will be associated with the <a>
tag's URL. When I say associate, I'll just store the two with some
relational ID into a database.

Besides brute regular expression parsing of the text, is there a better way
to extract this content?

Thanks,
Brett

[Cor Ligthert]

Brett,

The most nice however difficult way is in my opinon MSHTML it covers
completly the DOM.
(Do not set an import to it when you use it)

mshtml
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ng/hosting.asp

I hope this helps a little bit?

Cor

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Brett" <[e-mail]> schrieb:

I'd like to find URLs inside of an email message. If there is anything
between the <a></a>, I'd like to also get that and associate it with the
URL in the <a> tag.

Content between the <a></a> might be text or an image. The <img> tag will
also have a URL, which I need to get. It will be associated with the <a>
tag's URL. When I say associate, I'll just store the two with some
relational ID into a database.

Besides brute regular expression parsing of the text, is there a better
way to extract this content?

For parsing the HTML file:

MSHTML Reference
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/mshtml/reference/reference.asp>

- or -

..NET Html Agility Pack: How to use malformed HTML just like it was
well-formed XML...
<URL:http://blogs.msdn.com/smourier/archive/2003/06/04/8265.aspx>

Download:

<URL:http://www.codefluent.com/smourier/download/htmlagilitypack.zip>

If the file read is in XHTML format, you can use the classes contained in
the 'System.Xml' namespace for reading information from the file.

As you already said, regular expressions can be used to do what you try to
archieve:

..NET Framework Developer's Guide -- Example: Scanning for 'HREF's
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconexamplescanningforhrefs.asp>

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Cor Ligthert]

Herfried,

That link was I searching for, I could not find it.

I have saved it now in my HKW system.

Thanks

Cor

[Brett]

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi***************@gmx.at> wrote in message
news:un**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

"Brett" <[e-mail]> schrieb:

I'd like to find URLs inside of an email message. If there is anything
between the <a></a>, I'd like to also get that and associate it with the
URL in the <a> tag.

Content between the <a></a> might be text or an image. The <img> tag
will also have a URL, which I need to get. It will be associated with
the <a> tag's URL. When I say associate, I'll just store the two with
some relational ID into a database.

Besides brute regular expression parsing of the text, is there a better
way to extract this content?

For parsing the HTML file:

MSHTML Reference
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/browser/mshtml/reference/reference.asp>

- or -

.NET Html Agility Pack: How to use malformed HTML just like it was
well-formed XML...
<URL:http://blogs.msdn.com/smourier/archive/2003/06/04/8265.aspx>

Download:

<URL:http://www.codefluent.com/smourier/download/htmlagilitypack.zip>

If the file read is in XHTML format, you can use the classes contained in
the 'System.Xml' namespace for reading information from the file.

As you already said, regular expressions can be used to do what you try to
archieve:

.NET Framework Developer's Guide -- Example: Scanning for 'HREF's
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconexamplescanningforhrefs.asp>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

I don't see how MSHTML, without about as much work as regular expressions,
is going to extract URLs and the text between <a> and </a>, along with that
association.

Thanks,
Brett