Information Extraction and Integration Technology Based on Metadata and XML

In order to unify data form and to facilitate data manipulation and processing,this paper presents an effective method which uses metadata-based template-customizing technology to extract information.The presented method can efficiently extract information from unstructured document and convert the extracted information into XML which is then integrated into the relational database.The method has been successfully applied to the enterprise informatization system of a shipbuilding plant and provides a new Word-oriented solution for enterprise information integration.