agreed, this is not the best way to handle this issue. I'm considering
it as a temporary work-around to a technical issue with the underlying
cms.
On Feb 24, 9:49 am, the_woodsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Seriously, if you want this to scale when you have more names in the
> future, it'd be b
Seriously, if you want this to scale when you have more names in the
future, it'd be better to do at least some of the work server side, if
you can- perhaps put all names in a span with class personName, then
play around with those elements in JQ on the client side.
> I was also thinking that the routine you built could be converted into
a search-term highlighter.
There's already a jQuery plugin that highlights, called, conveniently-
enough, highlight!
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
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
Hey Stephen,
RegExps are always going to be slower than a basic indexOf, so perhaps
when you loop through the names you could try running an indexOf
first, then if it comes out positive, only then do you the RegExp
replacement.
I imagine that there would be a cutoff point where the performance
in
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]>
wr
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, '' +e+ '')
}
For only the first name on each page, just remove the 'g' modifier
from the RegExp constructor (I'm sure you know this)
Well you could do something like this (it would be prohibitively slow
on 250 names on one page though!!) :
var names = ['Stephen','Fred']
$("body").each(
function(){
var html = $(this).html()
$(names).each(
function(i, e){
var rx= new RegExp(e, 'gi')
Timothy,
Yes, I know the list of names.
On Feb 23, 3:41 pm, timothytoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you know the list of names? Or are you trying to identify what
> might be a name on the page (say two words in a row with initial
> caps)?
>
> On Feb 23, 12:35 pm, sspboyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr
Do you know the list of names? Or are you trying to identify what
might be a name on the page (say two words in a row with initial
caps)?
On Feb 23, 12:35 pm, sspboyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> I want to find specific names (I have a list of 320 names in an xml
> file). I want to sca
Hi Dave,
I want to find specific names (I have a list of 320 names in an xml
file). I want to scan through a page and create a link around the
first instance for one of the names in the list.
eg "Stephen Boyd's favourite person in the work is Fred Von Brown.
Stephen Boyd calls Fred Von Brown ever
Well regexp would be useful if there was a pattern to people's names,
but there isn't.
Do you want to find any names, or a list, or a specific name?
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