Question

I asked the question in a codeplex discussion but I hope to get a quicker answer here at stackoverflow.

So, I use HTML Agility Pack for HTML parsing in C#. I have the following html structure:

<body>
   <p class="paragraph">text</p>
   <p class="paragraph">text</p>
   <p class="specific">text</p>
   <p class="paragraph">text</p>
   <p class="paragraph">text</p>
</body>

And I need to get all p elements with class "paragraph" that exist after the p element with class "specific".

Is there a way to do that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

using .Class as in Mark s example (if that doesnt exist, substitute whatever is appropriate)

Use SkipWhile

e.g. in LINQPad you get 5,6,7 from:

int[] a = { 6, 5, 6 ,7 };
a.SkipWhile(x=>x!=6).Skip(1).Dump();

So depending on the type SelectNodes returns, either:

.SelectNodes( "/p" ).SkipWhile( p => p.Class != "specific" ).Skip(1)

or

.SelectNodes( "/p" ).Cast<XX>().SkipWhile( p => p.Class != "specific" ).Skip(1)

(or, ugly version)

.SelectNodes( "/p" ).SkipWhile( p => ((XX)p).Class != "specific" ).Skip(1)

(or in some cases - not if your expression is already filtering appropriately)

.SelectNodes( "/p" ).OfType<XX>().SkipWhile( p => p.Class != "specific" ).Skip(1)

EDIT: I d probably create an extension method:

static class HapExtensions
{
    public IEnumerable<T> SkipUntilAfter( this IEnumerable<T> sequence, Predicate<T> predicate) {
        return sequence.SkipWhile( predicate).Skip(1);
       }
}

Anyone care to search up prior art for this? Any good name suggestions?

Answer 2

Try this

bool latterDayParagraphs = false;
List<DocumentNode> nodes = new List<DocumentNode>();
foreach(var pElement in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("/p"))
{
   if(pElement.Class != "paragraph") 
   {
      latterDayParagraphs = true;
      continue;
   }
   if(latterDayParagraphs)
   {
      nodes.Add(pElement);
   }
}

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