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    <p>Ok so I need to query a live website to get data from a table, put this HTML table into a DataTable and then use this data. I have so far managed to use Html Agility Pack and XPath to get to each row in the table I need but I know there must be a way to parse it into a DataTable. (C#) The code I am currently using is:</p> <pre><code>string htmlCode = ""; using (WebClient client = new WebClient()) { htmlCode = client.DownloadString("http://www.website.com"); } HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(htmlCode); //My attempt at LINQ to solve the issue (not sure where to go from here) var myTable = doc.DocumentNode .Descendants("table") .Where(t =&gt;t.Attributes["summary"].Value == "Table One") .FirstOrDefault(); //Finds all the odd rows (which are the ones I actually need but would prefer a //DataTable containing all the rows! foreach (HtmlNode cell in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//tr[@class='odd']/td")) { string test = cell.InnerText; //Have not gone further than this yet! } </code></pre> <p>The HTML table on the website I am querying looks like this: </p> <pre><code>&lt;table summary="Table One"&gt; &lt;tbody&gt; &lt;tr class="odd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Text&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Value&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="even"&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Text1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Value1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="odd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Text2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Value2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="even"&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Text3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Value3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr class="odd"&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Text4&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;Some Value4&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>I'm not sure whether it is better/easier to use LINQ + HAP or XPath + HAP to get the desired result, I tried both with limited success as you can probably see. This is the first time I have ever made a program to query a website or even interact with a website in any way so I am very unsure at the moment! Thanks for any help in advance :)</p>
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