prompting · extract-cue-text-first-then-write-xpath-over TEC-0045 · proposed

Extract cue text first, then write XPath over condensed HTML

Stage one prompts an LLM on a sanitized HTML tree to return target values plus the anchor text preceding them; stage two condenses the page around those nodes and prompts a stronger LLM to emit an XPath, refined by executing it on seed page

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Stage one prompts an LLM on a sanitized HTML tree to return target values plus the anchor text preceding them; stage two condenses the page around those nodes and prompts a stronger LLM to emit an XPath, refined by executing it on seed page Filed by the drafting stage from XPath Agent: An Efficient XPath Programming Agent Based on LLM for Web Crawler (2502.15688) with status proposed: the paper introduces or tests it, and the claim drafted from the paper is its first evidence. The paper validated it by: Set-matching precision/recall/F1/accuracy on SWDE across four backbones (best: GPT-4o, F1 0.8514, accuracy 0.7413); sanitization measured to cut page size to roughly 10-20%. Comparison to AutoCrawler is discussed narratively, not tabulated, and no ablation isolates the cue-text component.. Nobody has vouched for it; add support or contest it on this page.

Addresses: Writing a reusable locator: regex, SQL, XPath

Does it work?

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