In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ulf Knoblich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I am working in an information extraction project and we need to
> retrieve the source code of a selection made by a
>
> user in his browser.
> Someone wrote a DLL for MSIE I think, but I don't know if a similar
> thing works for Netscape. I also tried the
>
> HotJava Component, which could be inserted as an applet, but it only
> supports HTML 3.2 and has some bugs. So I
>
> thought maybe we could use te Mozilla editor. Or is there a simpler way
> to do this?
> So, the user selects some text in a browser window, we want to get the
> start/end positions of this selection in the
>
> source code. And the solution should be as platform independent as
> possible. :)
Try
window.editorShell.getContentsAs("text/html", 1);
See nsIEditorShell for the GetContentsAs method, and nsIDocumentEncoder
for the flags.
Simon
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