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Michael A. Michalski (VIP)
I have used the WebClient object to obtain the text of a web page. What I
would like to do is to take the page and obtain only certain link objects
for display.

I am not certain how to do this other than doing basic string manipulation,
which I would like to avoid.

How would I take the results of DownloadData and walk a DOM tree to obtain
the links? Or is there a better method of doing this? I have found a
couple of links that address the use of WebClient but do not go into parsing
the results to obtain a list of only certain objects within the page.

Thanks!

Michael
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dave wanta (VIP)
Check out Webservices book by Bill Evjen.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764548298/qid=1029621605/sr=8
-2/ref=sr_8_2/104-0312338-7849535?s=books&n=507846

Ch 23 shows you how to turn a web page into a WSDL document, which allows
you to access a HTML page as Object.Name .

Example:
page.MsnQuote will fine the stock quote on one of the msn.com pages.

I think Amazon.com may actually have this posted as a sample chapter in his
book and Bill may be on the webservices list.

Cheers!
Dave
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