HtmlAgilityPack selecting childNodes not as expected

Question

I am attempting to use the HtmlAgilityPack library to parse some links in a page, but I am not seeing the results I would expect from the methods. In the following I have a Html

Answer 1

Also, Watch out for Null Check. SelectNodes returns null instead of blank collection.

HtmlNodeCollection linkNodes = htmldoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//a[@href]");

**if(linkNodes!=null)**
{
   foreach(HtmlNode linkNode in linkNodes)
  {
     string linkTitle = linkNode.GetAttributeValue("title", string.Empty);
     if (linkTitle == string.Empty)
     {
       **HtmlNode imageNode = linkNode.SelectSingleNode("img[@alt]");**   
     }
  }
}

Answer 2

With an xpath query you can also use "." to indicate the search should start at the current node.

HtmlNode imageNode = linkNode.SelectSingleNode(".//img[@alt]");

Answer 3

You should remove the forwardslash prefix from "/img[@alt]" as it signifies that you want to start at the root of the document.

HtmlNode imageNode = linkNode.SelectSingleNode("img[@alt]");