Re: How to tell Firefox NOT to do DOM-Tree creation

ExtDev wrote:
> You are right, it sounds painful to me, too.
> Preventing the normal XML handling is the point, I think.
> (For showing the result of my XSL transformation maybe I can do some
> coding/transformation so that I dont need FF's XML handling at that
> point.)

You can get there by unregistering the Gecko-Content-Viewers entries 
added for text/xml, application/xml, application/rdf+xml, and text/rdf. 
  See 
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/build/nsContentDLF.cpp#516 
for how it's done at shutdown.

That said, this won't help with application/xhtml+xml, image/svg+xml, 
etc. Not sure whether you care.

> The XMLHttpRequest object sounds interesting... maybe it fits my needs
> in a script together with suppressing the normal XML loading at all.

If you do use XHR, you can set the override type to text/plain to 
suppress parsing as XML.  Then you can get the text as responseText.

> Do you know how to do that suppressing of normal XML handling?

See above.  An extension can remove those category entries.

-Boris