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Caméléon# is a web data extraction and management tool that provides information aggregation with advanced capabilities that are useful for developing value-added applications and services for electronic business and electronic commerce. To illustrate its features, we use an airfare aggregation example that collects data from eight online sites, including Travelocity, Orbitz, and Expedia. This paper covers the integration of Caméléon# with commercial database management systems, such as MS SQL Server, and XML query languages, such as XQuery.
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Firat, A., Madnick, S., Yahaya, N.A., Kuan, C.W., Bressan, S. (2005). Information Aggregation Using the Caméléon# Web Wrapper. In: Bauknecht, K., Pröll, B., Werthner, H. (eds) E-Commerce and Web Technologies. EC-Web 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3590. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11545163_8
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