Grabbing part of another html document

I have a page that lists the titles and teasers from other pages on the site. The title is always wrapped in the only h1 tag on the page, and the teaser is wrapped in the only h2 tag on the page, so they're easily identified.
How can I pull those into a CF page so that I have this kind of list:
Article1 Title
Article 1 Teaser
Article 2 Title
Article2 Teaser
Etc.

What would be better... to try that approach or try and use the supplied XML file?
I would try both and use the one that works best for you. I generally prefer working with a structured format like XML documents, however if your HTML is consistently formatted using a regular expression may also be a valid approach.
Any good tutorials out there for learning how to bring xml data into the page
Take a look at the CF documentation.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24 -7fb3.html
Ben Forta's books are also a good resource for learning CF and include chapters on XML.
http://www.forta.com/books/0321679199/

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Hello all,
I have permission to grab certain contents of pages of a site
that is a
static site. The static pages are updated fairly frequently,
otherwise,
I would just copy and paste.
I'd like to grab all code that is within a standard div tag
with an id
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PS: to David Powers--great PHP for DW8 book.
-John

John R. Lenz wrote:
> I'd like to grab all code that is within a standard div
tag with an id
> and insert it into my pages.
>
> Is it possible to do this with script? I'm a beginner at
both PHP and
> ASP, so any pointers would be great.
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scraping
with PHP or page scraping with PHP. You'll find quite a few
tutorials.
The theory isn't all that difficult, but a lot depends on
your PHP
setup. You may need to use cURL or a socket connection if
your host has
disabled allow_url_fopen. It would also be a lot easier if
the target
page is valid XHTML and you have PHP 5. You could then use
SimpleXML to
loop through the page nodes to find the ID you want.
Rather than try to scrape the page every time somebody
accesses your
site, I would suggest scraping on a regular basis, say once
an hour, and
storing the content in a text file or a database. Of course,
that means
you need the ability to run PHP files as scheduled events.
It would be much simpler if the other site used a text file
as an
include. You could then grab the include yourself. Much
simpler, much
less hassle.
> PS: to David Powers--great PHP for DW8 book.
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http://foundationphp.com/

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This is actually very simple question, but it is an CSS question and not sql :-) once you open the HTML document the part of the SQL is over.
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content here
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content here
I Hope this will help you,
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I do not know why they call themselves professionals in flash and html, while they can not help us with a simple webpage inside a flash movie.
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