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Wrapping HTML Tables into XML

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Web Information Systems – WISE 2004 (WISE 2004)

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HTML tables are information rich and are used frequently in HTML documents, but they are mainly presentation-oriented and are not really suited for database applications. To wrap HTML tables, in this paper, we introduce a conceptual model for HTML tables, and based on it, we present a new approach to wrap HTML tables into XML documents. It can automatically convert basic HTML tables, nested tables, composite HTML table and the tables without marked headings, into XML documents.

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  1. School of Computer, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Shijun Li

  2. School of Computer Science, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K1S 5B6

    Mengchi Liu

  3. State Key Lab of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Zhiyong Peng

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of ITEE, The University of Queensland, Australia

    Xiaofang Zhou

  2. Database Systems Research and Development Center, University of Florida, P.O. Box 116125, 470 CSE, 32601-6125, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Stanley Su

  3. INFOLAB, Dept. of Information Systems and Management, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

    Mike P. Papazoglou

  4. Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Faculty of IT, Ul. Koszykowa 86, 02-008, Warsaw, Poland

    Maria Elzbieta Orlowska

  5. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, OX11 0QX, Didcot, UK

    Keith Jeffery

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Li, S., Liu, M., Peng, Z. (2004). Wrapping HTML Tables into XML. In: Zhou, X., Su, S., Papazoglou, M.P., Orlowska, M.E., Jeffery, K. (eds) Web Information Systems – WISE 2004. WISE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3306. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30480-7_16

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