Heikki Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > circusgirl wrote: > > I was hoping someone on here might be able to point me towards any > > sample code there might be out there for using the HTML parser within > > Gecko without an associated on-screen window. > > Many have expressed interest, but nobody has yet done this as far as I > can tell (well, I've done it before 2000 but I just tricked Mozilla to > think it had a window). > > > I've had a look at the Mozilla code and it seems that messing round > > with it is a nontrivial matter - Id be interested in knowing if, in > > your opinion, what I want to achieve is feasible with a week or two's > > work, or if I would be better off looking elsewhere, and if so, if you > > know of anywhere on the web where someone has done something similar. > > It is not trivial, but I don't think it would be too hard either. I > would probably start by writing my own content sinks that would just > print the data as the parser calls it, and cutting everything above the > sinks away. You will probably need to do something about the event > system to get this going.
Hi there, thanks for the advice! We've decided to go with the parser at htmlparser.sourceforge.net instead, as it will require fewer man-hours to adapt it to our purposes. But thanks for your help anyway! Donnla.
