C# Parsing html for general use?

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Published on 2010-05-21T10:06:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/21 10:10 UTC
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What is the best way to take a string of html and turn it in to something useful?

Essentially if i take a url and go get the html from that url in .net i get a response but this would come in the form of either a file or stream or string.

What if i want an actual document or something I can crawl like an xmldocument object?

I have some thoughts and an already implemented solution on this but I am interested to see what the community thinks about this.

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