[Greasemonkey] Parsing html - another way

[Aaron Boodman]

Wooo interesting....

I might include something like this in a future Greasemonkey version. Good idea.

- a

On 3/19/06, Hrvoje Prgeša <hrvoje.prgesa at fer.hr> wrote:
> Since I don't like using iframes or innerHTML for loading and parsing
> html (and I couldn't get it to work for the pages I needed it) I made
> another way to do it:
>
> I made a simple XPCOM object in C++ (50 lines of code) that I can call
> from my extension javascript - it accepts normal html and forwards it to
> "Tidy HTML" library which converts it to XHTML/XML. From there on I can
> use the normal DOMParser or anything else :)
>
> I might work in GM too if you can execute something like this (this
> works in a normal extension - I have no idea how GM works):
> const cid = "@mipis.hr/HtmlHelpers/HtmlToXml;1"
> var obj = Components.classes[cid].createInstance();
> obj = obj.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.IHtmlToXml);
> var pureXHtml = obj.convertHtmlToXml(html);
>
> So if anyone is interested...
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> H.
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