Re: Mozilla vs xulrunner

Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:37:27 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.embedding
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 7/1/2011 8:11 AM, arnuld wrote:
> I was reading about DOM specification and came to know that Mozilla
> supports DOM. I read MDN docs and see much of the documentation is
> outdated   If I want to use just only DOM  to call some methods  (e.g.
> getElementsByTagName) through C++ interface (means XPCOM interface ?)
> then what do I need:
>
> Firefox source or xulrunner source ? Do I need to embedd whole 700 MB
> mozilla or I can use DOM as a separate component ?
It's not clear to me what problem you're trying to solve. You can call 
.getElementsByTagName from within a web page itself.

Or are you working on a program that already exists, and you're trying 
to somehow parse a web site?

--BDS