[Tb] A Reader-Writer Bulletin Board Tb?

Hello Marc-Antoine, and thank you for your prompt reply. Reading
between the lines, and looking over the Tb documentation again, I
begin to see how the thing I want might be less straightforward than
I'd hoped.

As nice as generic solutions are, I'm willing to forego them and even
do some work by hand just to get myself a document over the next
several days. So, given that the web app is under the control of
Academic Computing, it sounds like I need some counsel on how to
"scrape content from a web page and serve it as XmlRpc".

It's odd, quasi parenthetically, that Tb isn't more directly
fashioned for something like this, seems to me .... But I guess we
all look at the world as if tools ought to be custom made for our
needs.

BTW, although I have system 10.3.4 installed, I can't seem to drag
your examples file onto TinderboxTool. Or rather, the app accepts
the drop, launches, then quits. Opening the file in Tb, however, is
a very impressive experience.

- Jerry

>Not to blow my own horn, but I think you would want to look at my
>tool for manipulating Tinderbox data.
>http://maparent.webhop.net/tinderbox//tindertoolbox.html
>
>In particular, it allows you to import data from a Xml-Rpc source,
>and to use XSLT to transform the results into TB's internal format.
>So if you can scrape the content from the web page and serve it as
>XmlRpc, you have a solution.
>
>That said, a simpler and more generic solution would be to provide a
>RSS stream for your student's contributions. TB will read RSS
>directly. How much control do you have over the web application? Do
>you know the Database tables format etc?
>
>Marc-Antoine
>
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