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Posted to user@ofbiz.apache.org by Adrian Crum <ad...@hlmksw.com> on 2008/07/08 18:53:35 UTC
Gathering Data From External Websites
I need OFBiz to gather data from external websites - so that data can be
extracted from the HTML. Is there anything like that in OFBiz? Has
anyone else done something similar?
-Adrian
Re: Gathering Data From External Websites
Posted by Adrian Crum <ad...@hlmksw.com>.
Thank you Al and Abhishake!
The JTidy library is what I was looking for. I wanted to convert an
external HTML page to a org.w3c.dom.Document object and JTidy does
exactly that.
Now I want to put some kind of wrapper around the Document object so I
can work with it in minilang.
-Adrian
Abhishake Agarwal wrote:
> Hello Adrian,
>
> I don't know whether ofbiz has this, but I have done similar thing using a
> API called html parser. you can search it on google.
>
> Regards,
> Abhishake
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Al Byers <by...@automationgroups.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Adrian,
>>
>> In the past I have used JTidy to make sure it is in XHTML and then wrote
>> Freemarker scripts to process the markup. I find FM to be easier to use
>> than
>> XSLT because it has a loop index var and it is easier to connect it with
>> Java classes that you may wish to write to help in the processing.
>>
>> -Al
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Adrian Crum <ad...@hlmksw.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I need OFBiz to gather data from external websites - so that data can be
>>> extracted from the HTML. Is there anything like that in OFBiz? Has anyone
>>> else done something similar?
>>>
>>> -Adrian
>>>
>
Re: Gathering Data From External Websites
Posted by Abhishake Agarwal <ab...@gmail.com>.
Hello Adrian,
I don't know whether ofbiz has this, but I have done similar thing using a
API called html parser. you can search it on google.
Regards,
Abhishake
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Al Byers <by...@automationgroups.com>
wrote:
> Adrian,
>
> In the past I have used JTidy to make sure it is in XHTML and then wrote
> Freemarker scripts to process the markup. I find FM to be easier to use
> than
> XSLT because it has a loop index var and it is easier to connect it with
> Java classes that you may wish to write to help in the processing.
>
> -Al
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Adrian Crum <ad...@hlmksw.com> wrote:
>
> > I need OFBiz to gather data from external websites - so that data can be
> > extracted from the HTML. Is there anything like that in OFBiz? Has anyone
> > else done something similar?
> >
> > -Adrian
> >
>
Re: Gathering Data From External Websites
Posted by Al Byers <by...@automationgroups.com>.
Adrian,
In the past I have used JTidy to make sure it is in XHTML and then wrote
Freemarker scripts to process the markup. I find FM to be easier to use than
XSLT because it has a loop index var and it is easier to connect it with
Java classes that you may wish to write to help in the processing.
-Al
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Adrian Crum <ad...@hlmksw.com> wrote:
> I need OFBiz to gather data from external websites - so that data can be
> extracted from the HTML. Is there anything like that in OFBiz? Has anyone
> else done something similar?
>
> -Adrian
>