As well, when your name list gets rather large, I'm sure other pre- processing routines could speed things up. For example, you could split the XML list into 26 sections, based on First Name, then text the html for which Capital letters it contains. You then only loop through again for those names which contain those capital letters.
I'm sure there's lots of other optimization routines out there too, like B-Trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree) and what have you. , then only for those which show up do you run th On Feb 24, 4:21 pm, sspboyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, That is great! Thanks. > I've tested it out with an array of 1000 names as a worst case > scenario and it is pretty slow. I'll have to see about refining the > list of names if possible to keep it as small as possible. > > Thanks again, > Stephen > > On Feb 23, 7:16 pm, Dave Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Heh heh, this is cool! > > > var names = ['Stephen Boyd','Fred Von Brown'] > > $("body").each( > > function(){ > > var html = $(this).html() > > $(names).each( > > function(i, e){ > > var rx = new RegExp(e, 'gi') > > html = html.replace(rx, '<a href="javascript:void(0);" > > onclick="alert(this.innerHTML)">' +e+ '</a>') > > } > > ) > > $(this).html(html) > > } > > )
