Tersus: Re: Mashup and punch-out

Re: Mashup and punch-outDate: Jul 11, 2011Hi Lars,Q1+Q2: You could use Tersus to create mashup applications, performing screen scraping of existing pages.Generally speaking, this could be achieved by:

Retrieving the specified page using Miscellaneous/Read Resource

Parsing the retrieved page content. The specifics of which depend on the structure of the specific pages, for example:
- Plain HTML pages, can be parsed using a combination of Text category templates, such as Extract, Get Position, etc.
- XHTML or other XML structured pages can be parsed Parse XML (if it's XML, XHTML).

This is the heart of the matter, as you'll need to model the logic required for parsing of each category of pages included in the mashup.

Saving the parsed data, aggregating it, and creating the mashup output

Q3: There are no built-in templates specifically aimed at "punch-out", but you could certainly use Miscellaneous/Call JavaScript, to call some external JavaScript code created specifically to perform this on each category of pages/forms.Q4: There is support for sending, receiving, and deleting email via the Send Email, Get Email and Delete Email templates available in the Miscellaneous category.Regards,DavidSee Also:

Re: Mashup and punch-out

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