Unable to get the selected text from the OLE browser

We are using OLE browser in PowerBuilder to let the user select important sections from the displayed html file in OLE Browser. After user selects the important text, we use the code (attached ) to get the text selected.

For the html file(we displayed the local copy of "http://www.biogenidec.com/site/news-and-media.html?pr_id=../news/BiogenIDECPR_2008_27.htm" file in the ole browser), we are getting empty string when we selected the text "The reconciling items between the GAAP diluted EPS and non-GAAP diluted EPS for full year 2008 are itemized in Table 3 within this press release" from the attached html document. When we tried to get the outerhtml, we got only the skeleton html text. For other files, there is no problem.




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// Code to get the text selected by the user.
selctedtext = ole_browser.object.document.selection.createRange().htmltext
 
string lcHtml,lcNew
 
// Check the ready state of the browser. Else the //ole_browser.object.Document might not be available as the browser
// runs in the different thread
DO WHILE  ole_browser.object.ReadyState <> 4	
  Sleep(100)
loop
 
//Try to get the html text of entire html document.
 lcHtml = ole_browser.object.Document.DocumentElement.outerhtml