Re: "dynamic" parser

Olivier Lefevre <nnylfv@ny.ubs.com>
10 Aug 1998 23:21:49 -0400

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From: Olivier Lefevre <nnylfv@ny.ubs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 10 Aug 1998 23:21:49 -0400
Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland, New York site
References: 98-07-217
Keywords: parse, WWW

Unless your users want to browse a really wide range of sites,
I'd just special-case each site, as there aren't that many of them
that traders (unless they are into exotic stuff like emerging market
exchanges) really use and every site tends to have a standard format
for all its tables (which often look like Excel CSV dumps, by the way).
I did it once for a few US sites and it was no big deal. You will
probably have to take that route anyway because in some cases the
HTML annotations provided are really minimal: a mere wrapper around
an ASCII table.


If you really want to roll out a general solution, you might want to
look at the SGML parsers and transformation tools listed under
http://www.sil.org/sgml/publicSW.html


-- O.L.
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