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Figure 14, step 3 is the interface to formulate the data request (request.xml) according to the
BioCASE protocol. The data harvest methods are developed as a PHP library and can be started
either directly from the web interface or from the UNIX prompt command line (or the crontab). The
data harvest includes paging of the XML data response from the harvested BioCASE end point when
there are more records available than the requested number of records per page (or the maximum
allowed records per page the remote BioCASE DSA is configured to allow).
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