Re: Two questions about grabbing "webpages" with p:load / p:document

"andy.carver@yahoo.com" <andy.carver@yahoo.com> writes:
> 1. Is this (bare-bones HTML) output from the p:load step actually all the spec (or other XProc documentation) has in mind, when speaking of the ability of p:load (or p:document) to retrieve documents (i.e. "webpages") from the Web?


> blank, white screen. For all the lovely data is not in the HTML served -- not, that is, until some AJAX queri(es) retrieve it from the server and add it to the DOM.

Yeah. We’re not providing a runtime environment that executes the page’s JavaScript. Sometimes you can dig around a bit and work out what the JavaScript requests and, if there’s a pattern, get it “by hand”. But that’s not always easy.

> I will mention that I'm a Windows user. So I apologize, if the answer to 2. is kindergarten stuff to Linux gurus :D In any case, I'm hoping for a solution that will work (eventually) in Windows.

Nothing Windows or Linux related here, I’m afraid.

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                                          norm

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