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Easy Screen-scraping with XQuery    

Posted by: Anonymous - on Friday, March 25, 2005 - 10:05 PM
 
While XQuery was designed for querying large document bases, it serves as a fine tool for transforming simple documents as well. This article shows how XQuery offers a fast and easy way to scrape HTML pages for the data you need. XQuery is the perfect tool for you if your goal is simplifying complex pages for display o­n small screens, or extracting elements from multiple pages to aggregate them together o­n a home-grown portal, or simply extracting data from Web pages because there is no other programmatic way to get the data.