I can insert SOAP content into the HTML stream. This is the mechanism I am going to use to do cross mungenetengine content replication.
Well, after using a SOAP client/server combination in the mungenetengine, I can call the external server asking for a content fragment and insert it into this site. Done. Duration 45 minutes. SOAP (ref: SOAP Spec); is a W3C protocol for client-server communications using XML as the payload format and HTTP as the transport.
The key point is that I can place content in one place (externally, for public view) and have the internal site seem like its ‘replicating’ the content. The way it works is to call a SOAP object requesting a particular mcid from a server; this is inserted this into the client’s HTML stream.