公开(公告)号：GB2354851B

公开(公告)日：2004-07-21

申请号：GB9923173

申请日：1999-10-01

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ENGLEFIELD PAUL J ,  FARMER MARK ,  TIBBITS MARK J

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F9/30

公开(公告)号：GB2354851A

公开(公告)日：2001-04-04

申请号：GB9923173

申请日：1999-10-01

Applicant: IBM

Inventor： ENGLEFIELD PAUL J ,  FARMER MARK ,  TIBBITS MARK J

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06F9/30

Abstract: Provided are a method of processing the data content of Web pages and a software component for cooperating with a Web Browser, the software component controlling the operation of a data processing apparatus on which it runs to perform the following steps in response to user selection of a desired data processing operation and user selection of a portion of a Web page presented via the Browser to a user of the data processing apparatus: extracting from the Web page the selected portion of the markup language Web page content; separating data items from markup tags within the selected portion; passing the separated data items to a data processing component to perform a processing operation on the individual data items; in response to receipt by said software component of a result of said processing operation, generating a modified version of the portion of the markup language Web page content; and providing said modified portion to the Browser to replace the extracted portion of the presented Web page. The data processing components include components for performing semantic processing operations on individual data items extracted from a Web page.