c#, html-agility-pack get text which is not inside tags

Question

This is my HTML:

<a class="bla"></a>
25 oct 2012

How can I get only 25 oct 2012. The text is not inside any tags. I am using the c# htmlagilitypack library.

Answer 1

Basically, you can use text() to reference text nodes in XPath. Try to pass the following XPath to HtmlAgilityPack's SelectNodes() or SelectSingleNode() method :

//a[@class='bla']/following-sibling::text()[1]

brief explanation :

• //a[@class='bla'] : find <a> element, anywhere in the HTML document, that have class attribute equals "bla" ...
• /following-sibling::text()[1] : then from such <a> return the nearest text node that follows