Server side Javascript parsing of HTML?

[Monty]

I'm writing a program on Zimki, which I think uses SpiderMonkey as a
server side Javascript engine.

My idea is to have an html file that someone else created, and look
inside for cells in a table that have special known names, like name,
description, etc. Then I want to figure out the <tr> <tr/> pair that
encloses all of those special tags, and use that as a template to
generate a bigger table from another datasource.

So, I'm wondering how I actually open a file and then parse it as html
so I can poke around the DOM, all from the server side without
involving a browser client.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks,

Monty

 

[Martin Honnen]

I'm writing a program on Zimki, which I think uses SpiderMonkey as a
server side Javascript engine.

So, I'm wondering how I actually open a file and then parse it as html
so I can poke around the DOM, all from the server side without
involving a browser client.

The DOM is not implemented by the JavaScript engine (e.g. Spidermonkey)
but by the host application which in your case is Zimki. I have never
heard about Zimki so I don't know what it offers but asking on a Zimki
specific newsgroup or mailing list is more likely to turn up expertise
on the host objects that environment offers.

 

[Monty]

The DOM is not implemented by the JavaScript engine (e.g. Spidermonkey)
but by the host application which in your case is Zimki. I have never
heard about Zimki so I don't know what it offers but asking on a Zimki
specific newsgroup or mailing list is more likely to turn up expertise
on the host objects that environment offers.

Good idea. I haven't found a Zimki developer's forum yet, though, so I
was hoping someone else using Spidermonkey might have already solved
this problem for me. It's a new site and documentation is kinda
sparse. They actually have a contest going to get people interested in
the site, but I think they need to build up a developer community to
really get people playing with it.

Thanks,

Monty