how to return plain text from a httpWebRequest

[Dica]

i'm trying to write a simple screen scraper for mapQuest. so far, the app is
working fine, connecting to mapQuest and returning the directions i want.
however, everything is coming back as html. is there a simple way to return
the mapQuest query as plain text?

tks

 

[Scott Allen]

Not automatically - since the MapQuest application returns HTML that
is exactly what you'll see on the receiving end. You'll have to strip
the HTML out yourself.

Here is a starter:
Stripping HTML Tags using Regular Expressions
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/042501-1.shtml

 

[Brock Allen]

I've used SgmlReader to parse the HTML into an XML document upon which I
could extract what I was looking for:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/...mpleGuid=B90FDDCE-E60D-43F8-A5C4-C3BD760564BC

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen