TC-GXML - A Transcoder for HTML to XML Grammar

This paper discusses a transcoder, TC-GXML, designed and developed by us as a part of an ongoing research project related to design and development of a speech based webbrowsing system for visually challenged. It is always easier to develop a visual application than a nonvisual application based on speech interface. There are issues like Non-Standard format of HTML, due to which it is difficult for a developer to design a common non-visual interface. In the design of TC-GXML, we have considered all these issue in transforming HTML to GXML and then to VoiceXML or any other XML type. TC-GXML is an improvement over existing Transcoding techniques in terms of its capability of parsing a wider range of websites of varied structure.