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Transforming web pages to become standard-compliant through reverse engineering

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Vincent Y. ShenAuthors Info & Claims

W4A '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international cross-disciplinary workshop on Web accessibility (W4A): Building the mobile web: rediscovering accessibility?

Pages 14 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/1133219.1133223

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Developing Web pages following established standards can make the information more accessible, their rendering more efficient, and their processing by computer applications easier. Unfortunately, more than 95% of the existing Web pages today are not "valid" in that they do not follow some of the recommendations (standards) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Fixing any Web page to make it standard-compliant is a major undertaking. There is now an open-source tool called HTML Tidy which will attempt to fix the invalid HTML code automatically. However, Tidy often changes the Web page's appearance after processing. It is not an effective tool to transform existing Web pages to make them standard-compliant.In this paper we report the design and implementation of PURE, a tool that cleans up an HTML document through reverse engineering. PURE starts with the rendering result of a given Web page and generates valid HTML code and CSS automatically to produce the same appearance. It is found to be effective for many existing Web pages. A prototype is now available for public testing and comments.

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Grijzenhout SMarx M(2018)The quality of the XML WebWeb Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web10.1016/j.websem.2012.12.00119(59-68)Online publication date: 20-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.websem.2012.12.001
Eaton C(2012)A Framework for Detecting and Diagnosing Configuration Faults in Web ApplicationsAdvances in Computers Volume 8610.1016/B978-0-12-396535-6.00005-3(137-181)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-396535-6.00005-3
Grijzenhout SMarx M(2011)The quality of the XML webProceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/2063576.2063824(1719-1724)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2063576.2063824

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Transforming web pages to become standard-compliant through reverse engineering
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Internet communications tools

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W4A '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international cross-disciplinary workshop on Web accessibility (W4A): Building the mobile web: rediscovering accessibility?

May 2006

153 pages

ISBN:159593281X

DOI:10.1145/1133219

Conference Chairs:
Simon Harper
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Yeliz Yesilada
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Carole Goble
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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Grijzenhout SMarx M(2018)The quality of the XML WebWeb Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web10.1016/j.websem.2012.12.00119(59-68)Online publication date: 20-Dec-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.websem.2012.12.001
Eaton C(2012)A Framework for Detecting and Diagnosing Configuration Faults in Web ApplicationsAdvances in Computers Volume 8610.1016/B978-0-12-396535-6.00005-3(137-181)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-396535-6.00005-3
Grijzenhout SMarx M(2011)The quality of the XML webProceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management10.1145/2063576.2063824(1719-1724)Online publication date: 24-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2063576.2063824

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