I have the following script element in my web page:

<script src=default.js type=text/javascript></script>

Using JavaScript, I want to be able to retrieve the content of the script file. I know I could use an ajax request to get the data but then I am getting something from the server that I already have locally.

So what I would prefer to do is retrieve the content from the DOM (if that's possible) or something that has the same result.

Cheers
Anthony

UPDATE

I was trying to simplify the question, maybe a bad a idea, I thought this way would cause less questions.

The real situation I have is as follows, I actually have

<script type=text/html class=jq-ItemTemplate_Approval>

   ...

   html template that is going to be consumed by jQuery and jTemplate

   ...

</script>

Now this works fine but it means each time the page loads I have to send down the template as part of the HTML of the main page. So my plan was to do the following:

<script src=template.html type=text/html></script>

This would mean that the browser would cache the content of template.html and I would not have to send it down each time. But to do this I need to be able to get the content from the file.

Also in this case, as far as I know, requesting the content via ajax isn't going to help all that much because it has to go back to the server to get the content anyway.