code snippet works when procedural, but doesn't when converted to modular

Posted by Delirium tremens on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Delirium tremens
Published on 2010-03-12T18:39:01Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 19:17 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 301

Filed under:
|
function sc_HTMLParser(aHTMLString){
    var parseDOM = content.document.createElement('div');
    parseDOM.appendChild(Components.classes['@mozilla.org/feed-unescapehtml;1']
        .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML)
        .parseFragment(aHTMLString, false, null, parseDOM));
    return parseDOM;
}

becomes

this.HTMLParser = function(aHTMLString){
    var parseDOM = content.document.createElement('div');
    parseDOM.appendChild(Components.classes['@mozilla.org/feed-unescapehtml;1']
        .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableUnescapeHTML)
        .parseFragment(aHTMLString, false, null, parseDOM));
    return parseDOM;
}

and

searchcontents = req.responseText;
parsedHTML = sc_HTMLParser(searchcontents);
sitefound = sc_sitefound(compareuris, parsedHTML);

becomes

searchcontents = req.responseText;
alert(searchcontents);
parsedHTML = this.HTMLParser(searchcontents);
alert(parsedHTML);
sitefound = this.sitefound(compareuris, parsedHTML);

The modular code alerts the search contents, but doesn't alert the parsedHTML. Why? How to solve?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about JavaScript

Related posts about firefox