WEB PAGE TRANSCODING METHOD AND SYSTEM APPLYING QUERIES TO PLAIN TEXT

摘要

Signature schema documents, pre-defined in a query language, provide one or more instructions for application by an engine to transcode plain text-ba sed web pages of respective web sites. The instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract a subset of data using one or more signa tures previously identified within web pages of the same web page family of the web site. The engine interprets the instructions to search the web page text for signatures to locate and extract the subset of data. Each signature may comprise at least one text string within the code of the web page. Dire ctional references indicate positions of the subset of data relative to the location of the text strings and direct the searching. Transcoding may facil itate use of e- commerce web sites by wireless mobile devices.