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xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit Dean Maslic
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Hi,Im thinking in a generic way, with any site. Some ideas I had were eg. calculate total num of nodes, then go through block level nodes (div, table,tr, ol etc) and calculate a ratio between their number of nodes vs. total number of nodes. If the numbers are roughly the same (say > 0.9), don't label, go to the child nodes and apply the same. If they are different, look for collections of of links (eg. count(descendant::html:a) > 5) or size of text nodes etc. Im sure there would be a way to do it for a generic 'standard' site (ie.page that contains a Top link-bar, left/right sidebar, and some text/image content) The algorithms you have in mind can be applied with XSLT, but I doubt they'll ever result in something usable. It will only work with structured and well-designed -consistency - sites that are in XHTML. But such sites typically already have decent structure and/or well chosen class attributes from which you can easily derive it. I don't think it will ever work with a "standard" website, which tends to equal a messy and bloated tag soup.
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