XML gateways

Robert A. (Bob) Morris ram at CS.UMB.EDU
Mon Mar 19 23:18:22 CET 2001


Here's some candy: we've built simple sample gateways to the USDA
Plants site and the Simthsonian Mammal Species of the World
site. Server-side perl makes up cgi requests to the site, parses
the returned html and emits XML. Of course, it is a very unstable solution since
changes to the site's html will break it. But we did it because we
experiment with federating heterogeneous XML biodiversity databases.

You can nibble at
http://www.cs.umb.edu/efg/xml/junwan/DEVELOP/gateway/gateway2.html


Bob Morris
Jun Wan




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