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Method and apparatus for structuring the querying and interpretation of semistructured information
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In this article, a method for determining how semistructured information is organized in disparate semi-structured resources by providing a wrapper to extract information and to provide structured information (e.g., tuples of an SQL database) to a mapper coupled to a standard relational database engine is provided.Abstract:Â
A method is provided for determining how semistructured information is organized in disparate semistructured resources by providing a wrapper to extract information and to provide structured information (e.g., tuples of an SQL database) to a mapper coupled to a standard relational database engine. In a specific embodiment, a querying agent is provided on top of the mapper. Further according to the invention, structured high-level user queries are processed across the disparate semistructured resources using a plurality of wrappers each dedicated to a particular resource.read more
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