Using Nested Tables for Representing and Querying Semistructured Web Data

Authors:
Irna M. R. Evangelista Filha;Altigran Soares da Silva;Alberto H. F. Laender;David W. Embley
Affiliations:
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Venue:
CAiSE '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Year:
2002

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Abstract

This paper proposes an approach for representing and querying semistructured Web data, which is based on nested tables allowing internal nested structural variations. Our motivation is to reduce the complexity found in typical query languages for semistructured data and to provide users with an alternative for quickly querying data obtained from multiple-record Web pages. We show the feasibility of our proposal by developing a prototype for a graphical query interface called QSByE (Querying Semistructured data By Example), which implements a set of QBE-like operations that extends typical nested-relational-algebra operations to handle semistructured data.