Re: [Xsb-users] XSB Win32 / MS Access ODBC ?

[<ki...@cs...>]

> Oh, I was just wishing for that! Would this let XSB "ask the Web" for
> more data in mid-proof? We want to be able to exchange information about
> Web data sources and have the XSB engine pull in relevant facts (and
> information about additional sources) dynamically...

You will be able to issue http/ftp (didn't check the other protocols)
requests to bring in any page you want as a string or in a parsed form
(currently html or xml parsing only). You can do it by inserting an
appropriate subgoal in your rule bodies. So, I guess the answer is yes.

The only problem is that it was tested on Linux and Solaris only. Under
windows it requires configuration work to get the DLLs built, etc.
I hope somebody would want to take a shot at it.


	--michael