What are some use cases and is it deprecated? As I found out at http://groups.google.com/group/envjs/browse_thread/thread/6c22d0f959666009/c389fc11537f2a97 that it\'s \"non-
Just a cleaner answer besides @Esailija and @Greg answers: This function will create another document outside the tree of current document, and clean all scripts, styles and images from the new document:
function insertDocument (myHTML) {
var newHTMLDocument = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument().body;
newHTMLDocument.innerHTML = myHTML;
[].forEach.call(newHTMLDocument.querySelectorAll("script, style, img"), function(el) {el.remove(); });
documentsList.push(newHTMLDocument);
return $(newHTMLDocument.innerHTML);
}
This one is fantastic for making ajax requests and scraping the content will be faster :)