Folks (particularly extension developers) regularly ask for a way to
parse HTML into a document object, which is currently hard and hacky to do.
bzbarsky suggested last year that things may get better in Gecko 1.9
[1], and shaver recently started a wiki page on the subject [2].
My questions are:
1. Will things get better in Gecko 1.9/Firefox 3 (i.e. are there
concrete plans or promising developments in this area)?
2. If not, is it worth turning the MicrosummaryResource object [3],
which does this (hackily, but perhaps as well as currently possible),
into an XPCOM component usable by other code?
[1]
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.dom/msg/a584d4ed6b907b5c
[2] http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Parsing_HTML_From_Chrome
[3]
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/browser/components/microsummaries/src/nsMicrosummaryService.js.in#1873
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