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Old Pedant · 11-02-2012, 07:52 PM

You know, there may be an easier way to do this.

Since that *IS* HTML, don't even try to treat it as XML.

Instead, put a HIDDEN <iframe> on your page and load the HTML in that <iframe>.

Then you can just use HTML DOM methods in your JS code to grab the relevant data out of the <iframe>!

11-02-2012, 07:52 PM	PM User \| #9
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