XPath/Screen Scraping Gurus..

[John J. Lee]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:
[...]
> Screen-scraping refers, I believe, to the process of identifying what is 
> onscreen in GUI programs, possibly even at the pixel level, and trying 
> to translate that back into a higher level model (e.g. text in fields) 
> of what is going on.
> 
> Web-scraping, on the other hand, generally doesn't need to involve the 
> graphic representation of anything, and can work at the level of HTML, 
> XML, and ... XPath.
> 
> (Disclaimer: I know these terms are not really standardized, but I think 
> the defacto standard definitions match what I've described fairly closely.)

Some people do seem to use "screen-scraping" to cover what you define
above as "web-scraping".


John