retrieving word IDs from highlighted text?

[alhuber1502]

My text looks like this in the browser: So chearful and sprightly, she ...

and like this in the source:

<w xml:id="peh89-239170">So</w>
<c> </c>
<w xml:id="peh89-239180">chearful</w>
<c> </c>
<w xml:id="peh89-239190">and</w>
<c> </c>
<w xml:id="peh89-239200">sprightly</w>
<pc xml:id="peh89-239210">,</pc>
<c> </c>
<w xml:id="peh89-239220">she</w>

When I highlight the above line in the browser, can I retrieve "target": [peh89-239170, peh89-239180, peh89-239190, peh89-239200, peh89-239210, peh89-239220] or something to that effect? Thanks!

[rsimon]

There's no support for custom markup I'm afraid. I am hoping to support XPointer-based targets at some point (including for the TEI markup using the CETEIcean library) but I don't know when that will happen. (My main personal interest (as well as my paid jobs...) are focused more around image annotation at the moment.)

[alhuber1502]

Thanks, can I hack this? Any pointers to where in the code to start?

[rsimon]

Should be hackable in principle. Devil might be in the details. But the code that translates DOM ranges to annotation targets is here:

https://github.com/recogito/recogito-client-core/blob/main/src/selection/SelectionUtils.js#L30-L51

If you want the targets to restore properly, too, you'd need to dig deeper, starting here:

https://github.com/recogito/recogito-client-core/blob/main/src/highlighter/Highlighter.js#L43

But that might not be necessary. If you just add your own ID selector in parallel to the char offset selector (rather than replace the char offset target with the ID-based one), the annotation would still restore properly when you load it.

[alhuber1502]

Thanks, that's great, I'll have a stab at it.