Closed zhugeyicixin closed 5 years ago
Wait, shouldn't we use 3 paragraphs? Do we consider bullet points as a single paragraph?
I think there could be some cases where bullet points are separated paragraphs. But at least for this one, it looks more like a single paragraph because the HTML contents are wrapped in the same DIV
and the words "all the experimental results are summarized here:" indicate the paragraph is not ended.
Wait, shouldn't we use 3 paragraphs? Do we consider bullet points as a single paragraph?
You are partially right: this unordered list is enclosed in a div
element with class "Para", so it's natural to think that these items belong to that paragraph. However, this definition of "paragraph" is problematic because if you browse through the file, not all elements in the same div
are actually part of a single paragraph. Let's not define paragraphs in this way. Usually, paragraph is thought as a continuous block of text representing some common ideas (correct me if I'm wrong). We probably care more about how they are arranged and displayed in the paper.
There is a formal definition of a paragraph in HTML language, see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/p a paragraph is defined as a block-level element, meaning that they are displayed in a block. A paragraph can be made explicit, as you want to enclose a paragraph inside <p></p>
. A paragraph can also be made implicit, by using other block-level elements, such as <div>
, <ul>
, <form>
, etc. to forcibly close a block element. A <p>
element does not necessarily mean a real paragraph, because you can set its display: inline
to force it to become an inline element, see https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_display. You can see, it's pretty hard, but not impossible, to decide what are paragraphs.
To keep it simple, let's not worry about rule breakers such as setting the display: inline
property. But we do know list elements are rendered as block-level paragraphs. To keep it even simpler, in this case, since bullet points are rendered as separate blocks of text in a paper or an HTML file, I don't think these three blocks belong to the same paragraph anymore.
To clarify, see this funny fiddle I created: https://jsfiddle.net/67xrtqvc/
Yep, I think this definition would be more universal and changed the test code.
BTW, the fiddle is really convenient!
So the original parser is correct, I will close this issue.
The "Conclusion" part in "10.1007/s40964-017-0023-1" has only 1 paragraph while the parsed result has 3. I think it is because bullet points are used in that paper. (see unit test LimeSoup/test/test_springer/test_springer.py) @IAmGrootel