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Automatic HTML to XML Conversion

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Advances in Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2004)

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We present a new approach to automatically convert HTML documents into XML documents. It first captures the inter-blocks nested structure, then the intra-blocks nested structure, which consists of blocks including headings, lists, paragraphs and tables in HTML documents, by exploiting both formatting information and structural information implied by HTML tags.

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

    Shijun Li

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

    Mengchi Liu

  3. School of Computer, National University of Singapore, Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119260

    Tok Wang Ling

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

    Zhiyong Peng

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Qing Li

  2. Shenyang Liaoning, Northeastern University, 110004, China

    Guoren Wang

  3. Dept. of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

    Ling Feng

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Li, S., Liu, M., Ling, T.W., Peng, Z. (2004). Automatic HTML to XML Conversion. In: Li, Q., Wang, G., Feng, L. (eds) Advances in Web-Age Information Management. WAIM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3129. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27772-9_78

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