/// <summary>
/// Parses the given HTML string into a collection of root nodes and their
/// children.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="html">The HTML text to parse.</param>
public IEnumerable <HtmlNode> ParseChildren(string?html, bool ignoreHtmlRules = false)
{
HtmlElementNode rootNode = new("[TempContainer]");
HtmlElementNode parentNode = rootNode;
Parser.Reset(html);
bool selfClosing;
string?tag;
// Loop until end of input
while (!Parser.EndOfText)
{
if (Parser.Peek() == HtmlRules.TagStart)
{
// CDATA segments (blocks we store but don't parse--includes comments)
CDataDefinition?definition = HtmlRules.CDataDefinitions.FirstOrDefault(dd => Parser.MatchesCurrentPosition(dd.StartText, dd.StartComparison));
if (definition != null)
{
parentNode.Children.Add(ParseCDataNode(definition));
continue;
}
// Closing tag
if (Parser.Peek(1) == HtmlRules.ForwardSlash)
{
Parser.Index += 2;
tag = Parser.ParseWhile(HtmlRules.IsTagCharacter);
if (tag.Length > 0)
{
if (parentNode.TagName.Equals(tag, HtmlRules.TagStringComparison))
{
// Should never have matched parent if the top-level node
if (!parentNode.IsTopLevelNode)
{
parentNode = parentNode.ParentNode;
}
}
else
{
// Handle mismatched closing tag
int tagPriority = HtmlRules.GetTagNestLevel(tag);
while (!parentNode.IsTopLevelNode && tagPriority > HtmlRules.GetTagNestLevel(parentNode.TagName))
{
parentNode = parentNode.ParentNode;
}
if (parentNode.TagName.Equals(tag, HtmlRules.TagStringComparison))
{
if (!parentNode.IsTopLevelNode)
{
parentNode = parentNode.ParentNode;
}
}
}
}
Parser.SkipTo(HtmlRules.TagEnd);
Parser.Next();
continue;
}
// Open tag
if (ParseTag(out tag))
{
HtmlTagFlag flags = ignoreHtmlRules ? HtmlTagFlag.None : HtmlRules.GetTagFlags(tag);
if (flags.HasFlag(HtmlTagFlag.HtmlHeader))
{
parentNode.Children.Add(ParseHtmlHeader());
}
else if (flags.HasFlag(HtmlTagFlag.XmlHeader))
{
parentNode.Children.Add(ParseXmlHeader());
}
else
{
// Parse attributes
HtmlAttributeCollection attributes = ParseAttributes();
// Parse rest of tag
if (Parser.Peek() == HtmlRules.ForwardSlash)
{
Parser.Next();
Parser.SkipWhiteSpace();
selfClosing = true;
}
else
{
selfClosing = false;
}
Parser.SkipTo(HtmlRules.TagEnd);
Parser.Next();
// Add node
HtmlElementNode node = new(tag, attributes);
while (!HtmlRules.TagMayContain(parentNode.TagName, tag) && !parentNode.IsTopLevelNode)
{
parentNode = parentNode.ParentNode;
}
parentNode.Children.Add(node);
if (flags.HasFlag(HtmlTagFlag.CData))
{
// CDATA tags are treated as elements but we store and do not parse the inner content
if (!selfClosing)
{
if (ParseToClosingTag(tag, out string?content) && content.Length > 0)
{
node.Children.Add(new HtmlCDataNode(string.Empty, string.Empty, content));
}
}
}
else
{
if (selfClosing && flags.HasFlag(HtmlTagFlag.NoSelfClosing))
{
selfClosing = false;
}
if (!selfClosing && !flags.HasFlag(HtmlTagFlag.NoChildren))
{
parentNode = node; // Node becomes new parent
}
}
}
continue;
}
}
// Text node: must be at least 1 character (handles '<' that was not a tag)
string text = Parser.ParseCharacter();
text += Parser.ParseTo(HtmlRules.TagStart);
parentNode.Children.Add(new HtmlTextNode(text));
}
// Return top-level nodes from nodes just parsed
return(rootNode.Children);
}
