XPath/Screen Scraping Gurus..

[Peter Hansen]

bruce wrote:
> I'm not that familiar with Pythin, but I wasn wondering if there are any
> XPath/Python Gurus that I might be able to talk to regarding screen scraping
> applications...

Since you mention XPath, it seems likely you are really interested in 
*web-scraping*.

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.)

-Peter