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APWeb 2003: Web Technologies and Applications pp 388–393Cite as

Web Wrapper Validation

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Web wrapper extracts data from HTML document. The accuracy and quality of the information extracted by web wrapper relies on the structure of the HTML document. If an HTML document is changed, the web wrapper may or may not function correctly. This paper presents an Adjacency-Weight method to be used in the web wrapper extraction process or in a wrapper self-maintenance mechanism to validate web wrappers. The algorithm and data structures are illustrated by some intuitive examples.

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  1. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, 4072, Australia

    Eng-huan Pek & Xue Li

  2. National University of Defence Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Yaozong Liu

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  1. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou  & Maria E. Orlowska  & 

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, 4350, Australia

    Yanchun Zhang

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Pek, Eh., Li, X., Liu, Y. (2003). Web Wrapper Validation. In: Zhou, X., Orlowska, M.E., Zhang, Y. (eds) Web Technologies and Applications. APWeb 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2642. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36901-5_40

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