Hi Greg,
Thanks for the pointers. I found the
InternetExplorer.Application and am now able to read
the html into a DOM. MSXML.DOMDocument failed to load
it in to. The IE app loading method does seem to be
faster from initial testing. Now I just need to parse
the DOM.
Thanks again,
Brent
--- Greg Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Does the DOM built into IE handle <DT> elements
> > properly (ie: no </dt>)? If so that would be
> great.
> > Do you have any sample code to get me started? :)
>
> Well, there are two ways you can do it. Either you
> can use the XML DOM (via
> 'new ActiveXObject( "MSXML.DOMDocument" );') -
> search for that in loader.js
> for an example)
>
> That won't handle tags that don't have a closing
> element however. The other
> option would be to use the IE activeX object, whose
> class string escapes me
> at the moment - load it with your HTML, then parse
> the DOM tree (via
> document.elements)
>
> As for example code, I can give you some pseudocode,
> but don't really have a
> good way to test it right now, since I don't have a
> netscape bookmark file
> laying around. I'll track some sample statements
> down, and paste them at
> the bottom of this message.
>
> > 1) maintaining the menu hierarchy structure - can
> we
> > specify subcategories for dqsd? My yahoo bookmarks
> are
> > up to 4 levels deep.
>
> Hmmmm. I'm not really familiar with the menu stuff,
> at some point someone
> was talking about categories/subcategories for a
> nested menu, but I don't
> know if it ever got developed.
>
> > 2) How do I decide what search name/alias to use.
> My
> > yahoo bookmarks have ~1700 links organized in a
> tree
> > structure up to 4 levels deep.
>
> I'd have just given the URL as the alias, so as not
> to cause conflicts (of
> course this doesn't work if you have the same URL
> bookmarked in different
> spots of the tree)
>
> > 3) How would I remember all my search
> names/aliases
> > for 1700 searches?
>
> I thought the point was to put it into the menu - I
> was really just
> suggesting a simple way to put stuff into the menu.
> Of course I didn't
> realize the scope of your bookmarks files (I think I
> have maybe 30 bookmarks
> total)
>
> > 4) How would adding 1700 searches impact the
> overall
> > performance of dqsd?
>
> Performance might be impacted, but I don't think
> seriously. I'd have to
> look at the code again to be sure, of course, but
> 2000 additional
> searches/aliases shouldn't take a noticable amount
> of time to deal with
> (after the initial load/parsing)
>
> Aliases are probably the more effective than
> searches for something like
> this, but I have a suspicion that the menu doesn't
> have subcategory
> cascading in it yet, and if it does, it's likely not
> going to work to 4
> levels. (I'm not running the latest version here,
> so I can't be sure -
> shame on me :)
>
> Here's some sample code, as I promised.
>
> The IE DOM stuff should be similar, you just have to
> figure out the proper
> class string...
> Note, I use MSXML3 at work, I don't know what
> version comes with IE5.5 by
> default
>
> var xmlDoc = new new
> ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument");
> var objNodeList;
> var objSubNodeList;
> var currNode;
> var currSubNode;
>
>
xmlDoc.loadXML("<myRootNode><mySubNode><myBookmark>...");
>
> objNodeList =
> xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("mySubNode");
>
> currNode = objNodeList.nextNode(); // get the first
> "<mySubNode>"
> while (currNode != null) {
> objSubNodeList =
> currNode.getElementsByTagName("myBookmark")
>
> currSubNode = objSubNodeList.nextNode();
> while (currSubNode != null) {
> //Process the subnode - grab attributes and text
>
> //currSubNode.attributes.getNamedItem("href").value
> //currSubNode.text, etc.
> currSubNode = objSubNodeList.nextNode();
> }
> currNode = objNodeList.nextNode();
> }
>
> That should parse things and let you maintain
> heirarchy info. It's not
> clear how you want to procede from there.
>
> Sorry it's not more IE DOM specific, I don't have
> any IE DOM code laying
> around to look at. Worst case scenario, you can run
> the HTML through a
> quick cleaning operation to make sure it's valid xml
> first.
>
> This email has taken a long time to write - I
> apologize if someone else beat
> me to it.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
>
-------------------------------------------------------
> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
> Welcome to geek heaven.
> http://thinkgeek.com/sf
> _______________________________________________
> DQSD-Devel mailing list
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel
__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo!
http://sbc.yahoo.com
-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
Welcome to geek heaven.
http://thinkgeek.com/sf
_______________________________________________
DQSD-Devel mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel
