Using Linq To Xml To Traverse An Html Table

So, I can easily use LINQ to XML to traverse a properly set-up XML document. But I'm having some issues figuring out how to apply it to an HTML table. Here is the setup:

Solution 1:

XElement myTable = xdoc.Descendants("table").FirstOrDefault(xelem => xelem.Attribute("class").Value == "inner");
IEnumerable<IEnumerable<XElement>> myRows = myTable.Elements().Select(xelem => xelem.Elements());

foreach(IEnumerable<XElement> tableRow in myRows)
{
    foreach(XElement rowCell in tableRow)
    {
        // tada..
    }
}

Solution 2:

Once you have an XElement with the <table>, you can loop through its child Elements().

Solution 3:

linq is like sql it performs set based operations.

You want to focus on using a foreach loop to iterate over the selected set of xelements -

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