Overcoming ambiguity in HTMLAgility pack (Windows Phone 7)

Question

I am trying to get the InnerText of a particular node with the following xpath /html/body/center/table/tbody/tr[5]/td[3]/font/font/span by using the following
doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("/html/body/center/table/tbody/tr[5]/td[3]/font/font/span").InnerText

But instead it is returning me the InnerText with the following xpath /html/body/center/form/table/tbody/tr[5]/td[3]/font/font/span

Am I making any mistake? Do I have to be more specific with the Xpath? If so, please help me by specifying how to be more specific.

This is the link to the html document. http://tneb.tnebnet.org/tariff_new.html — Vignesh PT, Jan 07 '13 at 20:22
When you use SelectNodes instead, it actually returns both nodes, this is due to a bug/feature in HAP. See below. — jessehouwing, Jan 07 '13 at 20:48

jessehouwing · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-13T22:39:37.237

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You're running into a known behavior with regards to the handling of tags to fix incorrectly written HTML. There is a bug tracking this on the HTML Agility Pack website and luckily, there is a workaround for this.

        HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
        // v== Add this line before loading a document
        HtmlNode.ElementsFlags.Remove("form"); 
        doc.Load("doc.html");

edited Jan 13 '13 at 22:39

answered Jan 07 '13 at 20:47

jessehouwing

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Overcoming ambiguity in HTMLAgility pack (Windows Phone 7)

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