Intelligence Conversion of HTML Table into XML
Cheng Yong-shang · Jisuanji gongcheng · 2009
While HTML tables are widely applied for Web,XML is widely accepted as a standard format to process and manage information.In order to utilize and manage XML,the HTML tables should be transformed into XML representations.This paper presents an efficient method for the process,which consists of two phases,such as area segmentation and structure analysis.The area segmentation cleans up tables and segments them into attribute and value areas by checking visual and semantic coherency.The hierarchical structure between attribute and value areas is analyzed and transformed into an XML representation using a proposed table model.Experimental results with more than 300 HTML tables show that the proposed method performs better than conventional methods,resulting in an average accuracy of 86.7%.