Best way to parse Editor.Content server side?

[Jeffrey]

We're going to be using the RadEditor in our project.  We're going to need to parse the HTML content when the page is submitted in order to :

(1)Retrieve any images used in the HTML and store them in our database
(2)Retrieve custom tag-holders and replace with server-side criteria

Does anyone have any recommendations on the best way to do this?

Thanks

[Tervel]

Hi Jeffrey,

There are two "classic" approaches that you can take.
One is to parse the editor content using regular expressions and/or string.Replace (for the "replace" part of the task).

The second approach would be to load the editor content in an XmlDocument (since RadEditor produces XHTML content, and XHTML is essentially XML)  - and use XPath and other available aproaches for quering and manipulating an XML document.


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Tervel
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[Mohammed]

Hi team,
i want to use XML document but the output is not xml 
for example if the editor has this content

Dear <span class="custom" target="test"> First Name </span>

in the server side i get the above html from the control editor. 

and it is not xml so how i can use xml document to get all the spans that has class "custom" 

Regards,
Mohammed

[Rumen]

Hello,

The content returned by the Content server property of RadEditor is a standard string and it is up to the developer working with it to decide how to modify it using the methods provided by the .NET framework. For example you can use the String.Replace and other String methods to locate and replace strings in the content area as well as regular expressions.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team