WebKit API for DOM

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WebKit API for DOM

Does WebKit expose an API for working directly with its DOM? I'm looking for a class like HtmlElement that can be used to build/traverse trees of HTML content.

I'm trying to host WebKit as a web browser control in a desktop application, and would prefer a direct API rather than going through COM. Thanks!

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Following URL has some interesting answer to you.

Where is WebKIT API?

lakshmanaraj 2009-02-19 09:26:48

Thanks ... I wonder how Google incorporated WebKit into Chrome??

Jen 2009-02-19 23:50:13

by taking the source code and compiling it, of course - how else? sorry, but this is a silly question, jen :)

2010-10-09 18:44:51

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Using QT/WebKit (at least version 4.6) it's now possible to access the DOM of the loaded document.

QtWebKit Module reference

Luca Tettamanti 2009-12-10 21:54:44

the PyWebkitQt DOM accessor API is utterly shit beyond belief. in order to get python callbacks for event handling, you have to - unbelievably - create a javascript code-snippet which references the python function as the callback. then, if you want to create an element, to be added to the DOM, you again have to execute a javascript code snippet, add a fake "id" to it, call getElementsById using the botched Qt DOM accessor function and then create a wrapper API to "nanny" that object. it's just utterly shit.

2010-10-09 18:42:39

you have a limited number of options, via the various DOM wrappers. the PyWebkitQt one is truly rubbish; the Objective-C one is only available on MacOSX (and is again limited and incomplete); the COM one is only available on windows; the GObject one is still under development even though the first version that was created in 2008 was superior and more feature-complete than what's actually now in webkit mainline source code; there are also some c++ bindings but i have not evaluated them. and then of course there's also the Javascript bindings and the google V8 javascript bindings (yes they're separate) but those are only available "in-browser".

that pretty much leaves the pythonwebkit project - http://www.gnu.org/software/pythonwebkit - as the only non-javascript-based DOM manipulation API that actually aims for full de-facto standards compliance, making python truly a peer of javascript when it comes to DOM manipulation.

2010-10-09 18:50:37

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