Syndicating static content

I've recently hit an issue where I want to syndicate the relatively 
static content from one website into a page on another. The specific 
instance is an About Me page on a private site into the Profile page on 
YASN.

Now if this was rapidly changing content such as blog entries I'd use 
RSS but in this case the source might change once every couple of months 
if that. And I want to do it in a generic way so I can apply it to 
several external sites.

The old way would be to use an Iframe but that's horribly 1997. I'm 
tempted to go back to the sites and recommend that they produce a static 
RSS feed of that page. But perhaps if they have valid XHTML, I could 
just tell them to put a tag marker at the start and end of the content 
to be syndicated so I don't get all their header, footer and branding. 
Then all the user has to tell me is the URL of the about page. This 
feels like it has echoes in the current work on microcontent.

But, but, there's probably structured data on that page and just taking 
the xhtml expression (and stripping unwanted html tags) loses the 
structure. So maybe what I'm really saying is that they should give me 
FOAF with the bulk of the xhtml embedded in a bio:full_profile CDATA 
tag. Except that the bio namespace doesn't have a full_profile tag.

I'm beginning to ramble here. :) What say you?

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