this is a group project taken in itec 4020 internet client-server systems of @prof.jimmy.huang. me and my friend @sangwon.kim had a very good time doing this together.

this project demonstrates how to automate the retrieval of biomedical literature data from pubmed using its esearch api. emphasizes efficient client-server communication, xml parsing, and automated data extraction.

the process begins by parsing a local xml dataset containing article titles, then sending those titles as search queries to the pubmed server. the server responds with xml files containing document ids (pmids), which are extracted and saved into a new xml file.