[Xerte-dev] Re: Glossary

[Fay Cross]

I think it's a problem with the regular expression - if you add a space after each word before you do a line break it will highlight the word but if it's at the end of a line/ sentence like your examples it won't.

I think it's looking for " xot " rather than just "xot" to avoid things like catalogue happening if you have the word cat in the glossary.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 05 October 2012 09:33
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Glossary

Hi Tom
is this XOT or xerte?
I can't get the Glossary to work in XOT at all - am I missing something stupid?...

As a test I added the following:
[cid:image001.jpg at 01CDA2DC.A71E0640]
Then a plain text page with
[cid:image002.jpg at 01CDA2DC.A71E0640]

and a text and graphics page with the same words
[cid:image003.jpg at 01CDA2DC.A71E0640]

But neither page shows any clickable links http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xot/play.php?template_id=143


From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 05 October 2012 08:34
To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Glossary

Julain,

I suppose this is one for you:

I have a teacher that wants to create a kind of dictionary, so he's created a big glossary, and then for each letter a separate text page containing a list of the terms.

However, the terms are not all transformed into a link.
1. The regular expression doesn't like the sentence ending on a 'newline', I've added '\r' to the set of characters that may 'end' a term in the RegExp of line 6662 (or the teacher has to add a space at the end of the term.

That still is not enough, it will only transform the first term to a link. I had to remove the \\b<file:///\\b> from the regexp. I tried to find a manual page to figure out what \\b<file:///\\b> means in RegExp, but I can't find it. Do you have any idea what the \\b<file:///\\b> is doing there?

For quick reference I needed to change this:

if (Glossary.enabled && highlight != false){
                for (var i = 0; i<Glossary.terms.length; i++) {
                    //new code with regexp
                    var re = new RegExp('\\b(' + Glossary.terms[i] + ')([.,!? -])', 'gi');
                    myText = myText.replace(re, '<font color = "'+STYLES.glossaryColour+'"><a class="glossary" href = "asfunction:_root.engine.rootIcon.showGlosTerm,'+i+'">$1</a></font>$2');
                }
            }

into this:

if (Glossary.enabled && highlight != false){
                for (var i = 0; i<Glossary.terms.length; i++) {
                    //new code with regexp
                    var re = new RegExp('(' + Glossary.terms[i] + ')([.,!? -\n\r])', 'gi');
                    myText = myText.replace(re, '<font color = "'+STYLES.glossaryColour+'"><a class="glossary" href = "asfunction:_root.engine.rootIcon.showGlosTerm,'+i+'">$1</a></font>$2');
                }
            }

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