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Data-Scrubbing A Ruse?

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

So I’m still tinkering with FileMaker 8.5 and I’m not totally sold on the data-scrubbing PR that’s being spun in the direction of users.  For example, is it easy to get prices from a live auction on eBay?  From the visual, we are led to believe that we have to hard-code parts of the example eBay page, and then take the value from within the tags.  Hmmmm, I’m not too convinced we can actually do that with anything but the most primitive of HTML pages.

Has anyone gotten this to work or have any code samples worth reviewing?