With just a few mouse clicks, we were able to load a page from the Web and see the page's elements as divided by the standard HTML tags. Take that stock-tracker, for example. We then created a new WIDL server input component that our spreadsheet used to receive input of a stock symbol. We were prompted for sample input. This interface is broken down into two subsections called Services and Bindings.
Services specifies how the data is sent and received.
Bindings specifies what specific data is used from the returned document. From within the Bindings view, you can define the variables, conditions, and regions of the document, and you can manipulate given variable names by changing the references to the objects. You can also use pattern matching and regular expressions to further parse the information. Using this information we were able to delete all the extra, unneeded parts of the original HTML document and auto-generate Visual Basic code to be inserted into modules for our Excel 95 spreadsheet. We then created the spreadsheet that would extract the information from the specified document.