Abstract:

Companies around the world are interested in getting relevant information about their main competitors. These companies demand detailed information of the different strategic areas. As and example of domain, we look into the domain of logistics. Any given corporation is interested in knowing the different geographic positioning of warehouses and distibution centers of its competitiors since this information has a high strategic value for future analysis decisions. The Lixto tool[1] has the ability and the performance to generate wrappers through the extraction of chunks of information from HTML pages into XML format. Lixto is a user-friendly tool that is assisting the wrapper generation process in an semi-automatical way providing a
fully visual and interactive user interface.