Empirical Study on Screen Scraping Web Service Creation: Case of Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV)
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- Internet is the biggest database that science and technology have ever produced. The world wide web is a large repository of information that cannot be used for automation by many applications due to its limited target audience. One of the solutions to the automation problem is to develop wrappers. Wrapping is a process whereby unstructured extracted information is transformed into a more structured one such as XML, which could be provided as webservice to other applications. A web service is a web page whose content is well structured so thatInternet is the biggest database that science and technology have ever produced. The world wide web is a large repository of information that cannot be used for automation by many applications due to its limited target audience. One of the solutions to the automation problem is to develop wrappers. Wrapping is a process whereby unstructured extracted information is transformed into a more structured one such as XML, which could be provided as webservice to other applications. A web service is a web page whose content is well structured so that a computer program can consume it automatically. This paper describes steps involved in constructing wrappers manually in order to automatically generate web services.…
Author: | Mohamadou Nassourou |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-49396 |
Document Type: | Preprint |
Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Institut für deutsche Philologie |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2010 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 0 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 00 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme / 004 Datenverarbeitung; Informatik |
GND Keyword: | HTML; XML; Wrapper <Programmierung>; Web service |
Tag: | HTML; Web service; Wrapper; XML |
Release Date: | 2010/08/09 |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |