Access more external data.

Quick start:

Integrate content from just about any website.

Here's an example of a Google search. (Click on the "+" icon to view the search results.)

What's going on:

RSS isn't the only kind of web data you can put on your wiki pages with JotSpot.

You can also integrate the content from just about any web site. Technically speaking, JotSpot allows you to fetch an HTML or XML data source and transform it using another wiki page containing XSLT.

Normally you won't have to worry about the details (like writing XSLT), you can just use some of the pre-packaged libraries that we've built.

1. Click Edit Page above to see how we do this. Note, you'll be prompted to change "edit modes" from WYSIWYG to Script Markup.
2. You'll see that there's just one line of script: <wiki:include path="/Lib/Ext/GoogleSearch" search="JotSpot" />. You can change "JotSpot" to any other text that you'd like to search on.

If you check out our documentation (available via the Help link at the bottom), you can learn about how to use a variable to dynamically set the search parameter.

One of the nice features of JotSpot is that most of what you see on the screen is implemented within the wiki. For example, the collapsible window containing the Google results is implemented by this file. (Be careful! It's all pure XML over there, so only advanced users should make changes...) Another example is the stylesheet used to process the Google results. (As before, be careful -- it's pure XML.)

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