ActionScript don't load HTML resources with HTMLLoader

I'm currently downloading website via an ActionScript HTMLLoader to later have access to the DOM to get some information out of the page.

The problem is: each resource that is linked on the page (images, stylesheets, javascript) is also loaded which takes some additional time. I don't really need th开发者_运维百科ose resources, because only the plain HTML/DOM is interesting.

Is there any way to disable loading of linked resources? At first I tried using an URLLoader and parse the result as XML, but when the website isn't valid this doesn't work. I also didn't find a library that validates/parses a given HTML-string into valid XML.

I'm using Adobe AIR on desktop.

Perhaps convoluted, but you could load the file with URLLoader, convert it to a string, use regex to remove links to the external resources you don't want, and then load the result into the HTMLLoader.