title: AngularJS $http HTML Parser
body: <p>All, we're developing a webapp with AngularJS and we have a use case/requirement (that won't happen very often at all) where we will need to retrieve a complete HTML document from our static server. However, it appears that the $http object returns a raw HTML string as its 'data'. We are trying to avoid using an external library (like jQuery, for instance), but we need to parse that raw HTML string into a queriable DOM object. We could use an iframe and be done with it, but we're also trying to avoid using iframes for well-known reasons.</p>
  
  <p>So, the question is: does AngularJS have a parser for HTML (as it does for JSON)? Or else, what's the most graceful way to handle this case?</p>
  
  <p>P.S.: We tried sifting through Angular's API docs, but in all honesty they are hit-or-miss and unintuitive to navigate around.</p>