LearnPADS: Automatic Tool Generation from Ad Hoc Data

Summary: LearnPADS infers a PADS description from ad hoc data and generates parser, printer, validation, and traversal libraries to form tools. Directly from ASCII data, the tools offer XML/CSV conversion and Galax XQuery querying with no human intervention. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4086
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.2415551e-05
Overall Rank: 6,020 | 58.13%
DOI: -

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587	Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages	2003	SIGMOD	0.00019648348

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