SelectSingleNode returns the wrong result on a foreach
.net-4.0, c#, html-agility-pack, html-parsing
Solution
By starting your XPath expression with `//`, you're searching in the entire document that contains the `data` node.
You should be able to use `".//[...]"` to only check nodes within `data`.
Problem
``` HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument(); doc.LoadHtml(content); var nodes = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@class=\"noprint res\"]/div"); if (nodes != null) { foreach (HtmlNode data in nodes) { // Works but not what I want MessageBox.Show(data.InnerHtml); // Should work ? but does not ? MessageBox.Show(data.SelectSingleNode("//span[@class=\"pp-place-title\"]").InnerText); } } ``` I am trying to parse the results of a HTML, the initial node for the foreach, works just as expected and gives me a result of 10 items which matchs what I need. When I get into the foreach, if I output the inner html of the data item it display the correct data but if I output the SelectSingleNode it will always display the data from the first item from the foreach, is that a normal behavior or am I doing something wrong ? In order to resolve the issue I had to create a new html inside the foreach for every data item like this: ``` HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument innerDoc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument(); innerDoc.LoadHtml(data.InnerHtml); // Select what I need MessageBox.Show(innerDoc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//span[@class=\"pp-place-title\"]").InnerText); ``` Then I get the correct per item data. The page I was trying to get data from was http://maps.google.com/maps?q=consulting+loc:+US if u want to try and see what happens for yourself. Basically I am reading the left side column for company names and the above happens.