LYNX-DEV LYNX&EMACS: lynx -dump: filter for emacs?

[David Combs]

lynx: emacs, .html via lynx-as-filter?
Has anyone come up with a scheme for viewing
 the "output" of .html-files via the filter
 "lynx -dump" 

(Actually, I suppose, it doesn't have to be lynx, 
although lynx sure is FAST, both to start up,
and to run once started.)

Maybe via a hack to emacs' HTML-MODE?

Like, you perhaps read in a file foo.html, and emacs
(actually, hacked html.el)
then queries you "translate via lynx?", and if you
respond "yes", it applies the filter
   "lynx -dump foo.html > foo.htm"
or some such, and then reads in that output file instead.

Example of need: the java "api" is provided
as 7mb worth of .java files, each class being
documented by one of these 500+ html files.  

Now, if you are writing
java programs, AND are using EMACS as your editor, 
and you suddenly need to check the api-doc for
a class, you COULD separately run a browser, eg lynx or
netscape, etc, as a separate program, in a separate
(non-emacs) window, and view the doc there.

But that's a real pain; instead, you'd LIKE
to view that (translated from html) doc right there
in an emacs buffer.

Does anyone know whether this has been done,
and where some .el-code is for it?

THANKS

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