Re: Syndicating static content

Julian Bond wrote:

>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.
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Sounds like a case for hCard.  If I were you I'd read the hCard spec to 
see what it lacks for your needs.

- Lucas



>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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>



 
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