>
>and the same for IE to parse HTML. If not, is there anyway to pass a variable or variable contents to IE.Navigate intead of URL or file name?
>
>

>loIE   = CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application")
>loIE.Navigate(m.myHTMLText)
>DO WHILE loIE.Busy OR loIE.ReadyState <> 4
>	DOEVENTS
>ENDDO
>m.PlainText2 = loIE.Document.documentElement.innertext
>?m.PlainText2
>

Was 2 computer generations ago when I was hacking similar stuff -
you could stuff strings down IE, but it did not always chew on them like when loading a file.
I wrote them out from memo to temp file, less than 5% perf loss.

So speedwise file access was minimal compared to the hog of IE.
Browsers gotten faster, but I doubt that writing to file will kill perf...
but the great help IE reusing for parsing was climbing through the nodes instead
of always parsing, scratching head an coding on....
not one shots like the example.

regards

thomas