Page Stripping

Sometimes you may not want to merge the entire contents of a page using the "Connect" tag. You may only want to merge a section of a web page. To the do this, the Aggregator Module is used. The Aggregator Module uses a Start and End tag to determine what section of a Web Page will be merged using the "Connect" tag.

The syntax used to call the data is as follows: 

MOD=AGGREGATOR SRV=HTML ACTION={URL} START={text} END={text}

Example:

The web page, sitecreation.html, may contain the following source code: 

<html>
<head>
<title>IBM Workplace Web Content Management </title>
</head>
<body>
<b> IBM Workplace Web Content Management . </b><hr>
<table>
<tr><td  > 
The site creator has the task of creating a web site 
that will be served by Web Content Management. 
</td></tr>
<tr><td >
Web Content Management has many default tools and functions 
that can be used in the creation of a web site.
</td></tr>
</table>
</hr>
</body>
</html>

To strip the table out of this web page, the following code would be used: 

<html>
<head>
<title>Web Content Management, Aggregation</title>
</head>
<body>
<connect MOD="AGGREGATOR" SRV="HTML" 
ACTION="http://localhost/sitecreation.html"
START="<table>" END="</table >"></connect>
</body>
</html>

Only the table in sitecreation.html would be merged by the Web Content Management application. The Start and End tags can be used to strip any section of a web page, from a single line of text to a complete section of a page. (E.g., the Header or Body sections.).

Note:

  • The attributes entered within Start and End tags are CASE SENSITIVE.
  • If you specify actual HTML Tags as the Start and End tags, then specify complete tags.
  • You cannot specify tags that have attributes. (E.g. <table>).

Parent topic: Displaying Data from external Web Pages.

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