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| Paper: |
ADASS Web Database XML Project |
| Volume: |
238, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems X |
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241 |
| Authors: |
Barg, M. I.; Stobie, E. B.; Ferro, A. J.; O'Neil, E. J. |
| Abstract: |
In the spring of 2000, at the request of the ADASS Program Organizing Committee (POC), we began organizing information from previous ADASS conferences in an effort to create a centralized database. The beginnings of this database originated from data (invited speakers, participants, papers, etc.) extracted from HyperText Markup Language (HTML) documents from past ADASS host sites. Unfortunately, not all HTML documents are well formed and parsing them proved to be an iterative process. It was evident at the beginning that if these Web documents were organized in a standardized way, such as XML (Extensible Markup Language), the processing of this information across the Web could be automated, more efficient, and less error prone. This paper will briefly review the many programming tools available for processing XML, including Java, Perl and Python, and will explore the mapping of relational data from our MySQL database to XML. |
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