Raw Source Code of the WebBrowser Control

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i am using WebBrowser Control in my application

the WebBrowser Navigates to the url

http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml[^]

once the Document Completed Event of WebBrowser is Fired, i am showing the source code by MessageBox.s(WebBrowser1.DocumentText);

by it appears that the shown source code is different than actual

shown code contains html tags where as the url is of an XML file

what i need is the same text as it is in XML

one thing to remember, i do need to use webbrowser control, i have tried httpwebrequest, webclient etc none work, only webbrowser is able to get the XML page but it renders it to HTML so i cant get actual xml

hoping to get soem help

Posted 20-Aug-12 6:17am

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Updated 18-Sep-20 5:34am

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Member 14941845 · Answer 1 · 2020-09-18T05:34:00

Solution 3

If your getting the full url tag with the html tags with the string then why not use regex or string replace methods to get rid of the tags.

"<.*>", ""

Then it leaves the text only and is less burdensome with more code or dependencies.

Posted 18-Sep-20 5:34am

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fixthebugg · Answer 2 · 2012-08-20T11:24:00

Solution 2

have a look at these links..
http://blorgh.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/displaying-xml-in-the-net-webbrowser-control/[^]
and
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/winforms/thread/18ca6734-ddb7-4f44-a77c-9a7713dcc2e1[^]

Posted 20-Aug-12 11:24am

fixthebugg

**Zoltán Zörgő** · Answer 3 · 2012-08-20T06:30:00

Do you really need WebBrowser control? If you don't want to show a web page embedded in your application, you better use WebClient[^] class.
See also:
http://www.dotnetperls.com/webclient[^]
HTTP GET with .NET WebClient[^]
Or even better, read the xml directly:
http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial147_Creating-an-RSS-feed-reader-in-Csharp.html[^].