HTML DOM parser?

[calfdog at yahoo.com]

jjl at pobox.com (John J. Lee) wrote in message news:<87el04yyhf.fsf at pobox.com>...
> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:
> 
> > calfdog at yahoo.com writes:
> > > Here is a quick example of using automation with IE
> > > # This is a sample of automating IE using Python.
> > 
> > Thanks, I should have said I'm running under gnu/linux and I was
> > hoping for a standalone solution (some of the ones suggested sound
> > worth looking into).  Even connecting up Python to Mozilla sounds
> > awfully heavyweight.
> 
> PyKDE is less hassle, I think.  It's certainly heavyweight, though.
> Probably more lightweight still is HttpUnit on Jython.  I haven't used
> either, but I have compiled PyKDE recently, and didn't run into
> problems (but if you're unlucky, you may have to compile Qt, KDE, sip
> and PyQt first!).
> 
> I seem to have got a basic JavaScript wrapper working now (I'm using
> libjs from Mozilla's standalone spidermonkey distribution), bound 4DOM
> to it, and extracted & executed the script from a web page.  Quite a
> lot more to do, though (browser-like interface of some sort,
> javascript: scheme URLs, implement window object, wiring up event
> attributes to the JS interpreter, getting the DOM actually working
> propertly, understanding what document.write does, trying to connect
> the DOM to my Python HTML form and HTTP cookies interfaces...).
> 
> Anybody happen to know where JavaScript's document.some_form is
> documented?  Official W3C DOM has document.forms, but real browser
> DOMs apparently have forms directly on the document object.
> 
> 
> John

Try here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/dhtml_reference_entry.asp