Grab data from this HTML page

Hi i have this website, it's created in HTML, and there are no XML pages or other pages similar to XML. I have been told that i should use "string.IndexOf method then i can extract the data from it using string.Substring

i am new to coding before and i was wondering it someone was able to help me create the app, so that i can sell it.

Don't. String parsing is very flakey, brittle, and will fail over time.

Use HtmlAgilityPack instead, it provides you with a DOM-like API for working with HTML elements and can successfully parse broken HTML pages in a reliable fashion.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't XML parsers parse HTML? They're both markup languages, after all.

@spivonious: True XHTML can be passed by an XML parser, but HTML can't be reliably as it does not require all tags to be closed, <br> for example.  As w3bbo said, HtmlAgilityPack is your friend in these cases.

@PerfectPhase:Does HtmlAgilityPack provide a method for this?

"HtmlAgilityDocument" -> XDocument

I see no reason to have to work outside of XML, even if the source document isn't strictly XML.

@exoteric: I think it has a SaveAsXml function you could then parse with XDocument, not used it myself.  HAP is more XPath based in it's query system.

14 hours ago, exoteric wrote

@PerfectPhase:Does HtmlAgilityPack provide a method for this?

"HtmlAgilityDocument" -> XDocument

I see no reason to have to work outside of XML, even if the source document isn't strictly XML.

In principle, no; but because HTML has some special nuances of its own that make it difficult to model as XML. If you've got a pure, validating (non-XHTML) document then you can get away with it, but so many web-pages have broken HTML on them, that require even more special and arcane rules for processing that isn't available as part of any XML-processing library.

thank you for the information

Here is the code - 

<select name="routeId" size="1" class="selection" onchange="OnLinieChanged()">
               <option value="-1"> </option>
              <option value="182/1">1</option>
              <option value="182/1A">1A</option>
              <option value="182/2">2</option>
              <option value="182/2A">2A</option>

How would one get this information from the code to the phone?. So i would put all the routes in a drop down list and then when the user selects a route the stops will change in another drop down list.

yeah, just parse the HTML as raw input from socket, then get the info you need, and create a web srevice to query the pattern.