[Project_owners] evaluate html document by XMLHttpRequest

Wed Aug 8 04:21:47 PDT 2007

So, the trick here would be to throw all of the code into iframe and 
define it as text/html and then parse it?
Guess I think I got it right.

Tommi Rautava wrote:
> The problem is that you cannot parse HTML with XML parser. I struggled
> with the same problem some time ago and the best solution I have found
> so far is the HTML parser example made by Aaron Boodman (the original
> author of Greasemonkey):
> http://youngpup.net/userscripts/htmlparserexample.user.js
>
> br, Tom
>
> 2007/8/7, Foreningen Selvet - Jesper Staun Hansen <jesper at selvet.dk>:
>   
>> Hello.
>>
>>
>> I am having some trouble using element.evaluate(properties) with
>> documents fetched with XMLHttpRequest, so I am looking for a method to
>> do the same as this:
>>
>> //*****
>> var roundinfo = {
>>     runde : "56",
>>     heroesid : null,
>>     heroesnick : null
>> }
>>
>>         var path = '//table/tbody/tr/td';
>>         var obj = document.evaluate(path,document,null,
>>             XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
>>         for (var k = 0; k < obj.snapshotLength; k++) {
>>             obj2 = obj.snapshotItem(k).parentNode;
>>             var nodes = obj2.childNodes;
>>
>>             dump("Found keys: "+nodes.length+"\n");
>>             var menu = nodes[0].textContent.trim().split("#");
>>             roundinfo.heroesnick = menu[0].trim();
>>             roundinfo.heroesid = menu[1].trim();
>>             dump("Nick is: "+roundinfo.heroesnick+"\n");
>>             dump("ID is: "+roundinfo.heroesid+"\n\n");
>>         }
>> //*****
>>
>> And the document contains this:
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title></title>
>> </head>
>> <body>
>> <table>
>>         <tr>
>>                 <td colspan="3"><font face="arial" size="1" color="DarkTurquoise">Axe Decapitators       #130303</font></td>
>>         </tr>
>>
>>
>> </table>
>> </body>
>> </html>
>>
>> And the dump would be
>>
>> Nick is: Axe Decapitators
>> ID is: 130303
>>
>> And I tried some things to make it with XMLHttpRequest:
>> //******* Attemp:
>>             var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
>>             req.overrideMimeType('text/html');
>>             req.open('GET',
>> 'http://www.URL_TO_FETCH_CONTAINING_THE_ABOVE_CODE.dk', true);
>>             req.onreadystatechange = function () {
>>               if (req.readyState == 4) {
>>                  if(req.status != 404) {
>>                 var path = '//table/tbody/tr/td/font';
>>                 var domParser = new DOMParser();
>>                 var dom = domParser.parseFromString(req.responseText,
>> "text/xml").documentElement;
>>
>>                 var obj =
>> dom.evaluate(path,dom,null,XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
>>                 for (var k = 0; k < obj.snapshotLength; k++) {
>>                     obj2 = obj.snapshotItem(k).parentNode;
>>                     var nodes = obj2.childNodes;
>>
>>                     dump("Found keys: "+nodes.length+"\n");
>>                     var menu = nodes[0].textContent.trim().split("#");
>>                     roundinfo.heroesnick = menu[0].trim();
>>                     roundinfo.heroesid = menu[1].trim();
>>                     dump("Nick is: "+roundinfo.heroesnick+"\n");
>>                     dump("ID is: "+roundinfo.heroesid+"\n\n");
>>                 }
>>                  }
>>                  else
>>                   dump("Error loading page with status"+ reg.status +"\n");
>>               }
>>             };
>>             req.send(null);
>>
>>
>> But this only results in this:
>> Error: syntax error
>> Source File: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
>> Line: 1, Column: 62
>> Source Code:
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
>> Transitional//EN">-------------------------------------------------------------^
>>
>> Any tips on how to do this "right"?
>>
>>
>>
>> My regards.
>>
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