This is the README file for OurNet::Site, OurNet::Query and OurNet::Template, a scriptable query and template extraction tools, by Elixir Group and OurInternet Inc. * Installation libOurNet uses the standard perl module install process: perl Makefile.PL make make install * Copyright Copyright 2001 by Autrijus Tang . All rights reserved. You can redistribute and/or modify this bundle under the same terms as Perl itself. * Introduction The contents of most web services are formatted in ill-structured HTML, makes it extremely difficult to incorporate other site's services into your own. Even if such hand-coded attempts are made, the lack of streamlined representation forbids you from integrating other service's contents, or re-formats them into the same style. Take searching as an example: currently, most meta-search packages limits you to a fixed array of popular general-purpose Search Engines, and are incapable of take advantage of each one's unique services. The same limitation also applies to price-comparison services, special-purpose monitor sites (e.g. financial "stock watcher"), etc. OurNet::Query delivers a totally customizable engine to automatically monitor any web service's contents, and "wrap" them into any format - XML, RSS, database, or HTML templates - without any hard coding. Totally transparent to the end-user, they will feel as if these results are offered by the same source, hence makes it very easy to build a site filled with richly news, services and related contents.