Loading HTML-page without activating it

[Jeppe 1971]

Hi

Does anyone know of a way to load a HTML-page and examine the document
without activating the code?

I am trying to create a search-function in javascript.
The idea is that the function goes through all the HTML-pages on a
site looking for words entered by the user. The results is thereafter
presented to the user (it's a kind of a search-engine).

Creating the search-function is easy. I can do that myself.

The problem is that I can not find a way to load the HTML-pages
without activating them. Whenever a page is loaded into e.g. an
<OBJECT> or <IFRAME> it is activated. And if the body onload-event has
an alert-message, the user will be shown 50 alert-boxes, if there are
50 pages to go through. Not very smart ...

I need a way to pass the loaded document into a string before it is activated.

Best regards,

Jeppe Andersen

 

[Richard Cornford]

Does anyone know of a way to load a HTML-page and examine
the document without activating the code?

I am trying to create a search-function in javascript.
The idea is that the function goes through all the
HTML-pages on a site looking for words entered by the user.
The results is thereafter presented to the user (it's a kind
of a search-engine).

What you are proposing is that for _each_and_every_ search request made
the user downloads the entire web site. You have got to be on broadband
(or something better) to even be considering such a ridiculous scheme.

I need a way to pass the loaded document into a string before
it is activated.

Generally you can't but if you are willing to only impose this nonsense
on the users of a couple of types of web browsers you could look at
XMLHttpRequest and its ActiveX (near) equivalent. You will be able to
find references and examples searching on Google (note: that is a real
search engine and will not make you download the entire world wide web
in order to find out what is on it).

Richard.