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Creating a document from a string in Gecko

Answer 1

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Is it always that syntax? If so, why not use a regex?

Adam Bard 2009-10-23 22:58:19

my thoughts exactly

pstanton 2009-10-23 23:00:32

It may or may not be always that syntax.

apphacker 2009-10-23 23:05:11

Answer 2

+2 A:

Don't like answering my own question, but this seems to have worked for me:

doc = document.implementation.createDocument( "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "html", null );
doc.firstChild.innerHTML = '<html><body><div id="message">Hello World!</div></body></html>';
node = doc.getElementById( "message" ); 
alert( node.innerHTML );

apphacker 2009-10-24 06:32:36

Don't forget to declare variables.

kangax 2009-10-25 04:46:57

They are declared in a single, comma separated line at the beginning of the method. We use jslint.

apphacker 2009-10-25 07:01:27

Answer 3

+2 A:

Where do you get the string from? If it's XML, you could get away with using DOMParser.

Otherwise, you have to create an HTML document - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Parsing_HTML_From_Chrome.

The fact that just using createDocument works seems suspicious, because people used more complicated solutions all this time.

Nickolay 2009-10-24 20:50:09

I get it from a remote source via an xhr.

apphacker 2009-10-25 07:03:02

I will try the domparser method too, just curious if it works and is simpler. Thank you.

apphacker 2009-10-25 07:04:58

Yeah, but who controls what format that remote source returns data in?

Nickolay 2009-10-25 09:22:24

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