internal static void ConvertTo(HtmlNode node, TextWriter outText, PreceedingDomTextInfo textInfo) { string html; switch (node.NodeType) { case HtmlNodeType.Comment: // don't output comments break; case HtmlNodeType.Document: ConvertContentTo(node, outText, textInfo); break; case HtmlNodeType.Text: // script and style must not be output string parentName = node.ParentNode.Name; if ((parentName == "script") || (parentName == "style")) { break; } // get text html = ((HtmlTextNode)node).Text; // is it in fact a special closing node output as text? if (HtmlNode.IsOverlappedClosingElement(html)) { break; } // check the text is meaningful and not a bunch of whitespaces if (html.Length == 0) { break; } if (!textInfo.WritePrecedingWhiteSpace || textInfo.LastCharWasSpace) { html = html.TrimStart(); if (html.Length == 0) { break; } textInfo.IsFirstTextOfDocWritten.Value = textInfo.WritePrecedingWhiteSpace = true; } outText.Write(HtmlEntity.DeEntitize(Regex.Replace(html.TrimEnd(), @"\s{2,}", " "))); if (textInfo.LastCharWasSpace = char.IsWhiteSpace(html[html.Length - 1])) { outText.Write(' '); } break; case HtmlNodeType.Element: string endElementString = null; bool isInline; bool skip = false; int listIndex = 0; switch (node.Name) { case "nav": skip = true; isInline = false; break; case "body": case "section": case "article": case "aside": case "h1": case "h2": case "header": case "footer": case "address": case "main": case "div": case "p": // stylistic - adjust as you tend to use if (textInfo.IsFirstTextOfDocWritten) { outText.Write("\r\n"); } endElementString = "\r\n"; isInline = false; break; case "br": outText.Write("\r\n"); skip = true; textInfo.WritePrecedingWhiteSpace = false; isInline = true; break; case "a": if (node.Attributes.Contains("href")) { string href = node.Attributes["href"].Value.Trim(); if (node.InnerText.IndexOf(href, StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase) == -1) { endElementString = " < " + href + " > "; } } isInline = true; break; case "li": if (textInfo.ListIndex > 0) { outText.Write("\r\n{0}.\t", textInfo.ListIndex++); } else { outText.Write("\r\n*\t"); //using '*' as bullet char, with tab after, but whatever you want eg "\t->", if utf-8 0x2022 } isInline = false; break; case "ol": listIndex = 1; goto case "ul"; case "ul": //not handling nested lists any differently at this stage - that is getting close to rendering problems endElementString = "\r\n"; isInline = false; break; case "img": //inline-block in reality if (node.Attributes.Contains("alt")) { outText.Write(" [ " + node.Attributes["alt"].Value); endElementString = " ] "; } if (node.Attributes.Contains("src")) { outText.Write(" < " + node.Attributes["src"].Value + " > "); } isInline = true; break; default: isInline = true; break; } if (!skip && node.HasChildNodes) { ConvertContentTo(node, outText, isInline ? textInfo : new PreceedingDomTextInfo(textInfo.IsFirstTextOfDocWritten) { ListIndex = listIndex }); } if (endElementString != null) { outText.Write(endElementString); } break; } }