Parsing some info out of HTML - can you help me please?

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almurph

Hi everyone,


Can you help me please. I have an XML document (with the XML shown
below) and i am trying to parse out the information beginning "Member
Type:" and ending "Email:"

Can you help me please? Any suggestions/comments/code-sampels much
appreciated.

Thanking you,
Al.



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Membership Directory
Click to expand...
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<span id="ctl00_MainContent_lblWelcome">Juan Patricio Nogueira</
span>
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<a id="ctl00_MainContent_lnkProfile" href="javascript:__doPostBack
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<span id="ctl00_MainContent_lblTitle" style="font-size:X-Large;font-
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<span id="ctl00_MainContent_lblInfo" style="display:inline-
block;color:Blue;width:580px;">This Member belongs to one society.</
span>
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cellpadding="3" rules="rows" border="1" style="background-
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padding-top: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal">
<i>Endocrine Society</i>
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- <div style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt;
padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px">
<br />
<br />
<b>Member Type:</b>
Fellow/Student Associate
<br />
<b>Degrees:</b>
MD
<br />
<b>First Name:</b>
Juan
<br />
<b>Last Name:</b>
Nogueira
<br />
<b>Title:</b>
Endocrinologist
<br />
<b>Institution:</b>
Univ of Mediterranee, Dept of Endo
<br />
<b>Address 1:</b>
119 bd jeanne d
<br />
<b>Address 2:</b>
<br />
<b>Address 3:</b>
<br />
<b>City:</b>
Marseille
<br />
<b>State/Province:</b>
<br />
<b>Zip/Postal:</b>
13005
<br />
<b>Country:</b>
France
<br />
<b>Work Phone:</b>
33-06-19766814
<br />
<b>Fax:</b>
<br />
<b>Email:</b>
<a id="lblemailsoc" href="mailto:[email protected]" style="color:
navy; text-decoration: underline">[email protected]</a>
<br />
<b>Member Since:</b>
12/30/2006
<br />
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<textarea cols="1" rows="7" style="WIDTH: 496px; overflow: auto;
height: 128px;" readonly="readonly" wrap="off">Juan Patricio Nogueira
Univ of Mediterranee, Dept of Endo 119 bd jeanne d Marseille , 13005
France</textarea>

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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">The Federation of
American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) advances
biological science through collaborative advocacy for research
policies that promote scientific progress and education and lead to
improvements in human health.</font>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Tahoma; color:
black">©2007 Federation of American Societies for Experimental
Biology</span>
<br />
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<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=FASEB.org%20Technical
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Mark Rae said:
Two methods spring immediately to mind: String manipulation and Regular
Expressions.
Click to expand...

The one that springs immediately to my mind, is xmldocument and the
various node selection command (such as selectsinglenode).
 
Regular Expressions represent a much better solution, IMO:
http://dotnetperls.com/regex-match-use
Click to expand...
Hm,
as powerful as REs are they are _not_ particularly good on working
with nested data - and XML can be arbitrarily nested.

Al,
in my experience parsing XML "by hand" is tedious, error prone and
does not help you in the long run.
Unless you are absolutely certain that you will never have to deal
with XML again in the future I would strongly suggest that you learn
to use a _real_ XML parser. For your task at hand this might take a
bit longer, but this knowledge will pay off in the future.
Just my 0.02, of course.
Good luck
Helmut Giese
 
I have an XML document (with the XML shown
below) and i am trying to parse out the information beginning "Member
Type:" and ending "Email:"
Click to expand...

If it's wellformed x(ht)ml, using System.Xml.XmlDocument is probably
the easiest way to grep the data, cause you let .NET do
the parsing.
Having loaded the doc, you have to SelectNodes and then
check InnerText and NextSibling and your done.

Christoph

****** XML Dcoument Bwlow *****

- <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
- <!-- #BeginTemplate "/Templates/faseb_main.dwt"
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