Using C++ to access the client side DOM of a web page

[bretterson]

I'm trying to make a C++ program that will be able to look at the client side DOM of a web page. That way if I have it look at a page that uses javascript to change the page that it will be able to see the changed version. Does anyone know of a way to do that?

This may not really be an XML thing. I also posted this under C++ and Web, but most of the research I've done online led to sites that talked about using C++ to interpret XML, but my problem is really finding the client side DOM. So, it may not actually be XML, but I think it's related.

Thanks in advance,

Brett Bretterson

[Aghochikyan]

Please describe your problem in detail. I can't understand what you want to do.

[bretterson]

I'm trying to make a plug-in for a web browser. If a client is using a web browser with this plug-in then anytime the browser displays a page that has some special tags that aren't part of normal HTML then it will load my C++ program which will interpret the special tags and display whatever the interpretation says to the browser. I have a partner on this project who is working on how to load the program into the browser and make the browser recognize that certain tags mean to use our program. I'm working on making it so our program can look at the DOM of the page it's loaded into so it knows exactly what the special tags were and it's able to figure out what to display, but we want to make it so the person who writes the web page will be able to use javascript to manipulate these special tags. So they could do something like

document.getElementById("specialTag1").innerHTML+="<specialTag id='specialTag2'>
</specialTag>";

and then our program would be able to look at the DOM and see

<specialTag id='specialTag1'>
<specialTag id='specialTag2'></specialTag>
</specialTag>

even though only specialTag1 is actually in the HTML file.

Again, thanks in advance,

Brett Bretterson

[Aghochikyan]

Ok
IMHO better solution is using regular expressions to capture specified tags and attributes. If you need patterns to do it just replay in this thread.

[bretterson]

How would I do that? I'm kind of new to this aspect of programming.