Use Find Text -- Concordance TAPoRware Tool in Your Web Page

You can add a text field and a button in your web page to get the concordance of the pattern you entered in that page by call TAPoRware cgi script.

Pattern:

<table style="border: solid gray 1pt"><tr><td>

<form method="post" name="textForm" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="_blank" action="http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/cgi-bin/prototype/tfindtext.cgi" onsubmit="document.textForm.texturl.value=document.location.href">

<input type="hidden" name="source" value="url" />

<input type="hidden" name="texturl" />

<input type="hidden" name="freetext" value="yes"/>

Pattern: <input type="text" name="find_pattern" />

<input type="hidden" name="context" value="Word" />

<input type="hidden" name="contLength" value="5" />

<input type="hidden" name="HowToList" value="1" />

<input type="hidden" name="taporface" value="same" />

<input type="submit" name="doIt" value="Get Concordance of the Page" />

</form>

</td></tr></table>

<form id="concordanceform" method="post" name="concordanceform" 
enctype="multipart/form-data" accept-charset="utf-8" 
action="http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/cgi-bin/prototype/hfindtext.cgi" 
target="_blank" style="display:inline; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px;">
<input type="hidden" name="source" value="url" />
<input type="hidden" name="htmlurl" size="30" value="http://portal.tapor.ca/my-texts/1672.text"/>

<input type="hidden" name="tagtext" size="12" value="body" />
<input type="hidden" name="attribute" size="12" />
<input type="hidden" name="attrvalue" size="12" />
<input type="" name="find_patt" size="10" value="time"/><br>
<input type="hidden" name="context" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="conLeng" value="5">
<input type="hidden" name="finddisp" value="2">
<input type="hidden" name="taporface" value="1">
<input type="submit" value="now analyze that">
</form>

• Obtain source text string by URL or from user's local disk

• In the result page, you can click any word of the concordance to get its concordance without go back to the tool page.

• • context -- value can be 1/2/3/4 which corrsponding to Words/Lines/Sentences/Paragraph respectively

Pseudocode

• Obtain source etxt string by URL or from user's local disk
• If the source text format is HTML or XML, strip off all the tags
• Find user specified word/pattern along with user specified context -- concordance
• Generate a sparkline to show the word/pattern distribution over each 5% of text chunk
• Generate output of concordance and/or word lists before and after the user specified word/pattern in the concordance text

Ways of Using

• Enter a valid URL in the URL field or enter a local path upload the source text
• Enter word/pattern in the corresponding text field
• Select the context of concordance and enter a integer as the length of context
• Select output format
• If you want to display the word lists before and after the word/pattern, check the "Display words before and after the pattern" box. this is for HTML format only
• If you want the results displayed in the same window with taporware interface, uncheck the check box - "Open results in new window"
• Finally, click the "Submit" button

CGI Interface

If you want to use this tool from your web site, here is the CGI Interface: (Note: If you want to upload local source text to the tool, you need to use attribute name/value pair: enctype="multipart/form-data" within the form tag)

• URL: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/cgi-bin/prototype/tfindtext.cgi

Here are the parameters:

Web Service Interface

Taporware provides web services to any non-benefit organizations. here is the taporware web services infomation:

• Endpoint URL: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca:9982
• Service URI: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/webservice
• Service Method: find_Concordance_Plain
• parameters:
  • textInput -- any plain, html, or xml string
  • pattern -- unix styled pattern or regular expression
  • context -- value can be 1/2/3/4 which coresponding to Words/Lines/Sentences/Paragraph respectively
  • contextLength -- length of context
  • outFormat -- values are same as parameter "HowToList" in the CGI interface above
  • bf -- a boolean indicate if the words list before and after the word/pattern be display. "Y" is true

• Created by Lian Yan in 2004.
• Adapted to the TAPoR portal in 2005.

• When used through the TAPoR Portal on a plain text with certain Microsoft non-printing characters it fails. The TAPoRware implementation works.
• Microsoft accented characters don't display or work properly.

• Fix it so that it can handle Microsoft extended ASCII characters.

Find Text — Concordance

Description

History

Pseudocode

Ways of Using

CGI Interface

Web Service Interface

Known Bugs

To Do

-- MattPatey - 13 Oct 2005