Marek Kowalkiewicz
ABSTRACT
We present an empirical evaluation and comparison of two content extraction methods in HTML: absolute XPath expressions and relative XPath expressions. We argue that the relative XPath expressions, although not widely used, should be used in preference to absolute XPath expressions in extracting content from human-created Web documents. Evaluation of robustness covers four thousand queries executed on several hundred webpages. We show that in referencing parts of real world dynamic HTML documents, relative XPath expressions are on average significantly more robust than absolute XPath ones.
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Digital Library
- Kowalkiewicz, M., Orlowska, M., Kaczmarek, T. and Abramowicz, W. Towards more personalized Web: Extraction and integration of dynamic content from the Web. in Proceedings of the 8th Asia Pacific Web Conference APWeb 2006, Harbin, China, 2006. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Laender, A.H.F., Ribeiro-Neto, B.A., Silva, A.S.d. and Teixeira, J.S. A brief survey of web data extraction tools. ACM SIGMOD Record, 31 (2). 84--93. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Robust web content extraction
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