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Building Light-Weight Wrappers for Legacy Web Data-Sources Using W4F Arnaud Sahuguet and Fabien Azavant   View Paper (PDF)     View Demo (HTML)   Return to Demonstrations Abstract The Web has become a major conduit to information repositories of all kinds. Today, more than 80% of information published on the Web is generated by underlying databases (however access is granted through a Web gateway using forms as a query language and HTML as a display vehicle) and this proportion keeps increasing. But Web data sources also consist of standalone HTML pages hand-coded by individuals, that provide very useful information such as reviews, digests, links, etc. As for the information that also exists in underlying databases, the HTML interface is often the only one available for many would-be clients. References Note: References link to DBLP on the Web. [1] Brad Adelberg : NoDoSE - A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Semi-Structured Data from Text Documents. SIGMOD Conference 1998 : 283-294 [2] ... [3] Gustavo O. Arocena , Alberto O. Mendelzon : WebOQL: Restructuring Documents, Databases, and Webs. ICDE 1998 : 24-33 [4] ... [5] Susan B. Davidson , G. Christian Overton , Val Tannen , Limsoon Wong : BioKleisli: A Digital Library for Biomedical Researchers. Int. J. on Digital Libraries 1(1) : 36-53(1997) [6] Jean-Robert Gruser , Louiqa Raschid , M. E. Vidal , Laura Bright : Wrapper Generation for Web Accessible Data Sources. CoopIS 1998 : 14-23 [7] ... [8] Gerald Huck , Peter Fankhauser , Karl Aberer , Erich J. Neuhold : Jedi: Extracting and Synthesizing Information from the Web. CoopIS 1998 : 32-43 [9] ... [10] ... [11] ... [12] Arnaud Sahuguet , Fabien Azavant : Web Ecology: Recycling HTML Pages as XML Documents Using W4F. WebDB (Informal Proceedings) 1999 : 31-36 [13] W3C: Document Oject Model (DOM). http://www.w3.org/DOM/ BIBTEX @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/SahuguetA99,   author    = {Arnaud Sahuguet and                 Fabien Azavant},    editor    = {Malcolm P. Atkinson and                 Maria E. Orlowska and                 Patrick Valduriez and                 Stanley B. Zdonik and                 Michael L. Brodie},    title     = {Building Light-Weight Wrappers for Legacy Web Data-Sources Using                 W4F},    booktitle = {VLDB'99, Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Very                 Large Data Bases, September 7-10, 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland,                 UK},    publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},    year      = {1999},    isbn      = {1-55860-615-5},    pages     = {738-741},    crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/99},    bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } }, Copyright(C) 2000 ACM