Getting HTML source from Firefox

[anupamjain]

Hi,

I have been trying to achieve this since yesterday night and am not
able to figure out any solution as yet.

There's an XML page with RDF information inside. I want to simply get
the source of this page and save it in a file.(basically i want to do a
'save as' without prompting the user.

I'll use the FSO for putting it into the file but to get the source of
the page in a variable :

I think document.body or document.html do not work in Firefox. Also
document.documentElement.getElementByTagName('xml' )[0].innerHTML is of
no good.

Any ideas ?

Thanks,
Anupam

[anupamjain]

And I have also tried

var xmlDoc;
xmlDoc.load("my url");
alert('The XML in the page is :' + xmlDoc);

in Firefox. It says xmlDoc doesnt have any properties.

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

an********@gmail.com wrote:

And I have also tried

var xmlDoc;
xmlDoc.load("my url");
alert('The XML in the page is :' + xmlDoc);

in Firefox. It says xmlDoc doesnt have any properties.

Well, it does not. xmlDoc is declared, but not explicitly initialized. So
its value is `undefined'. And `undefined', the sole and primitive value of
the Undefined type, does not have a `load' property.
PointedEars

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

an********@gmail.com wrote:

There's an XML page with RDF information inside. I want to simply get
the source of this page and save it in a file.(basically i want to do
a 'save as' without prompting the user.

I'll use the FSO for putting it into the file
There is no FileSystemObject in the Gecko DOM, it is IE (DOM)-only.
You will have to use interfaces defined by the DOM Level 3 Load And
Save Specification or use the filesystem interfaces native to the
Gecko DOM. IIRC this has been asked and answered here before.
but to get the source of the page in a variable :

I think document.body or document.html do not work in Firefox.
document.body is a property defined in W3C DOM Level 2 _HTML_ as a shortcut
reference to the sole HTMLBodyElement object in the document tree of
(X)HTML documents. It is not available for non-(X)HTML document types,
of course.

There is no such property as `document.html' for any supported document type
in the Gecko DOM.
Also document.documentElement.getElementByTagName('xml' )[0].innerHTML is
of no good.
Because you are not dealing with an (X)HTML document. Furthermore, the
method identifier is `getElementsByTagName', not `getElementByTagName'.
Any ideas ?

var x = new XMLHttpRequest();
x.open('GET', 'http://example.com/blurb.rdf');
x.onreadystatechange = function()
{
if (x.readyState == 4 && /^[02]/.test(x.status))
{
window.alert(x.responseText);
}
};
x.send(null);
HTH

PointedEars