[users@httpd] Does Module exists for manipulating html text?

[Patrick Presto <ppresto@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've tried everything at this point
and I'm hoping the guru's of the apache list might be able to help!  

We have an interesting request from
our client who wants us to remove comments and _javascript_ from their web
pages during a request.  Their requirement is that the page size be
6K or less.  because of the dynamic programs they use to build these
pages the size becomes about 25K.  They want to dynamically update
validation and finally production with all the same content.  They
want the end users to request the page and have our web servers filter
the response and remove all the extra junk from the page.  

To get this to work I used the ext_filter
module and a compiled C program that uses regular expressions to remove
all the junk.
ExtFilterDefine  replace cmd="ssFormatter"

The problem with this is that the program
is called outside of the Apache process and creates a lot of overhead.
 This site gets about a million + hits a day.  Currently we are
serving about 800-1000pages/sec on each web server.  After loadtesting
with this new filter in place we averaged 11pages/sec.  

Does a  module exist today that
has the functionality to rewrite the html response?
Any other ideas out there besides ExtFilterDefine?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 Thanks everyone!  


Patrick Presto
IT Advisory Specialist
IBM Global Services
720-540-1082