A method and system are disclosed for acquiring and transforming existing
content (e.g., Hyper Text Markup Language HTML content) for display and
execution on multiple platforms and architectures. In one embodiment,
capture templates are created to harvest content from disparate content
sources on multiple platforms. Data is extracted from the content from
the disparate content sources using the created capture templates that
drives extracting process. A standardized data stream is generated from
the extracted data. The standardized data stream is provided for display
on one or more different type of platforms.