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Re: identify sections in an xhtml document

Subject: Re: identify sections in an xhtml document
From: "Joris Gillis" <roac@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:33:31 +0100
Re:  identify sections in an xhtml document
Tempore 01:28:30, die 02/11/2005 AD, hinc in xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit Dean Maslic <dean.maslic@xxxxxxxxx>:

Im thinking in a generic way, with any site.
Some ideas I had were eg. calculate total num of nodes, then go
through block level nodes (div, table,tr, ol etc) and calculate a
ratio between their number of nodes vs. total number of nodes. If the
numbers are roughly the same (say > 0.9), don't label, go to the child
nodes and apply the same. If they are different, look for collections
of of links (eg. count(descendant::html:a) > 5) or size of text nodes
etc.
Im sure there would be a way to do it for a generic 'standard' site
(ie.page that contains a Top link-bar, left/right sidebar, and some
text/image content)
Hi,

The algorithms you have in mind can be applied with XSLT, but I doubt they'll ever result in something usable.
It will only work with structured and well-designed -consistency - sites that are in XHTML. But such sites typically already have decent structure and/or well chosen class attributes from which you can easily derive it.


I don't think it will ever work with a "standard" website, which tends to equal a messy and bloated tag soup.


regards, -- Joris Gillis (http://www.ticalc.org/cgi-bin/acct-view.cgi?userid=38041) Veni, vidi, wiki (http://www.wikipedia.org)

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