Excellent suggestions. I will have to investigate a bit more on how much text will be on the different pages and whether I can make any improvements on the number of names returned in each xml file. (I might also be able to get list of names as a json feed).
I was also thinking that the routine you built could be converted into a search-term highlighter. Thanks, Stephen On Feb 24, 12:05 pm, Dave Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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) > > > } > > > )
