How to make a text search template?
- by Flipper
I am not really sure what to call this, but I am looking for a way to have a "template" for my code to go by when searching for text.
I am working on a project where a summary for a piece of text is supplied to the user. I want to allow the user to select a piece of text on the page so that the next time they come across a similar page I can find the text.
For instance, lets say somebody goes to foxnews.com and selects the article like in the image below. Then whenever they go to any other foxnews.com article I would be able to identify the text for the article and summarize it for them.
But an issue I see with this is for a site like Stack Exchange where you have multiple comments to be selected (like below) which means that I would have to be able to recursively search for all separate pieces of text.
Requirements
Be able to keep pieces of text separate from each other.
Possible Issues
DIV's may not contain ids, classes, or names.
A piece of text may span across multiple DIVs
How to recognize where an old piece of text ends and a new begins.
How to store this information for later searching?
