I am not sure if it is possible to do this with just JavaScript without having
named anchor tags for the location you want to jump to (6.3.1.3, in your
example).
Microsoft Word allows specifying the number of levels in a Table of Contents.
If you can update the source Word document, it may be simpler to recreate the
TOC in Word with more levels than the current setting (3). That way, we will
have named anchor tags for each section heading, which can then be bookmarked
and saved.
Regards,
Shashi Ramaka
sram...@owlcyberdefense.com
Tel: 703-965-3656
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Beckerle <mbecke...@apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2022 6:56 PM
To: dev@daffodil.apache.org
Subject: javascript question - add a search to a URL
I need a small javascript hack. Well perhaps small.
The DFDL spec was created using MS-Word.
It doesn't have a civilized index. Even URLs for headings below level 3 do not
exist. MS-Word was simply not up to the job.
You can't bookmark many things in the DFDL spec that you really would like to
bookmark with a URL.
I'd like to add some javascript to the HTML version of the spec, so that one
could take a URL like
https://daffodil.apache.org/docs/dfdl/#_Toc62570072
(which takes you to Section 6.3.1 DFDL String Literals) I'd like to add to this
URL, or encapsulate it in an enclosing URL, or somehow create something I can
bookmark as a URL which allows me to add a follow-on string-search to the above
URL, and have the document be searched for that string from that point
downwards and position the window at the result of the string search.
For example, I have no idea if one can do this just using the query part of the
URL, but perhaps adding to the URL to create this:
https://daffodil.apache.org/docs/dfdl/#_Toc62570072?search=6.3.1.3
That would find the Section "6.3.1.3 DFDL Character Class Entities in
DFDL String Literals" and position the browser at that section.
Is this feasible from javascript executing in the browser?
Mike Beckerle
Apache Daffodil PMC | daffodil.apache.org OGF DFDL Workgroup Co-Chair |
www.ogf.org/ogf/doku.php/standards/dfdl/dfdl
Owl Cyber Defense | www.owlcyberdefense.com
