Parsing html with the HTML Agility Pack and Linq

Question

I have the following HTML

(..)

 
   Test1 
   Data 
  

        

Answer 1

Here's one approach - first parse all data into a data structure, and then read it. This is a little messy and certainly needs more validation, but here goes:

HtmlWeb hw = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlDocument doc = hw.Load("http://jsbin.com/ezuge4");
HtmlNodeCollection nodes = doc.DocumentNode
                              .SelectNodes("//table[@id='MyTable']//tr");
var data = nodes.Select(
    node => node.Descendants("td")
        .ToDictionary(descendant => descendant.Attributes["class"].Value,
                      descendant => descendant.InnerText.Trim())
        ).ToDictionary(dict => dict["name"]);
string test1Data = data["Test1"]["data"];

Here I turn every to a dictionary, where the class of the is a key and the text is a value. Next, I turn the list of dictionaries into a dictionary of dictionaries (tip - abstract that away), where the name of every is the key.