Stringdom

The W3C DOM powered by text. Built on top of htmlparser2 and CSSSelect.

Usage

This library is published on npm as "stringdom". Install it via:

$ npm install stringdom

It exports a single constructor function for Document objects. Documents can be initialized with a defaultView object (i.e. the global window reference) and the parsing options supported by htmlparser2.

var Document = require('stringdom');

var document = new Document();
var ul;

document.write('<h1>Soul Food Cafe</h1><ul></ul>');

ul = document.getElementsByTagName('ul')[0];

ul.innerHTML = '<li></li><li></li>';
document.querySelectorAll('li')[0].textContent = 'toasted white bread';
ul.lastChild.textContent = 'four fried chickens and Coke';

ul.setAttriubute('class', 'orders');

console.log(document.documentElement.innerHTML);
// '<h1>Soul Food Cafe</h1><ul class="orders"><li>toasted white bread</li><li>four fried chickens and a Coke</li></ul>';

Limitations

• Pseudoselectors The CSSSelect engine is extremely fast, but some of its optimizations preclude the use of certain pseudo selectors. This includes :first and :last.
• Live NodeLists Unlike in true web browser contexts, all selections made with Stringdom are static--existing element collections will not be updated as their document is modified.

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Mike Pennisi
Licensed under the MIT Expat license.