[opencms-dev] Help with reading external data into opencms application

[Louis Jewett]

I'm trying to setup opencms for a small site. I have a list that is
going to be provided to me on another server via soap or possibly
straight html file.  What I need is a way to take this data living out
in the "real filesystem" and get it into a opencms page.  Includes do
not allow full url paths, and after hours ( and hours and hours ) of
searching I haven't found anything to do the trick yet.  I even tried
turning on Server Side Includes on my tomcat 5 installation and then
renameing my page inside opencms to file.shtml.. This of course didn't
work.  This seems like such a simple task that I'm afraid I'm missing
the obvious.  Any idas on a 'simple' way to include an html file that
is external to the vfs in a opencms page?

THANKS!