A case-based transformation from HTML to XML: an extended abstract

摘要

Recently, a huge quantity of HTML documents have been created in Internet, which really constitute a treasury of information. HTML, however, is designed mainly for reading with browsers, and not suitable for machine processing, whereas XML was proposed as a solution for this problem. In this paper, we give a case-based transformation method from HTML documents to XML ones. There are many series of HTML pages in actual Web sites, and each page of a series usually has a quite similar structure with each other. Therefore a case-based transformation must be a promising method in practice for a semi-automatic transformation from HTML to XML. Throughout experimental evaluations, we show this case-based method achieved a highly accurate transformation, i.e., 85% of actual 80 pages can be transformed in a correct way, with this case-based method.