Or you even can go more JSF way and make your own custom JSF component which will take care of getting a content by an URL and embedding the content in final page. In that case you will be able to reuse that component with single line of code in any page and at the same time have access in runtime to any JSF standard service.
2011/10/2 Jim May <jim.webg...@gmail.com> > You could use a javascript library like JQuery to make the process easier. > That way you don't have to worry about coding the xmlhttp object correctly > for different browsers. JQuery will give you the ability for ajax request > and then you can update an element on the page to contain the response. > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Werner Punz <werner.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Am 9/30/11 1:14 PM, schrieb Håkon Sagehaug: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> This is maybe a more general jsf question, but I´ll take my chances. Is > it > >> possible to include a html page, given as a url, without using iframe? > The > >> use case, is that we use something called Zoho as a viewer for our users > >> tabular data. How it works is that we send the tsv/cvs/xsl file to Zoho > >> and > >> get back a url, we can embed. It works using iframe, but if the user > >> navigates through our portal and wants to view the file again the iframe > >> starts a new session and the before generated url is no longer valid. So > >> wondering if there was something similar to iframe at least in what it > >> does, > >> that allows us to view the file using the url many times? > >> > >> You can use xmlhttp request and strip out the content you need and use > > innerHTML. > > Should work if you dont have styles integrated. > > > > Werner > > > > > > > > > > > -- > James May > Software Engineer / Architect > http://www.jamesmay.me >