Web data extraction is to obtain valuable data from the tremendous information resource of the World Wide Web according to the pre - defined pattern. It processes and classifies the data on the Web. Formalization of the procedure of Web data extraction is presented, as well as the description of crawling and extraction algorithm. Based on the formalization, an XML - based page structure description language, TIDL, is brought out, including the object model, the HTML object reference model and definition of tags. At the final part, a Web data gathering and querying application based on Internet agent technology, named Web Integration Services Kit (WISK) is mentioned.
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