[sword-devel] Efficiently extracting section + chapter headers

[Tobias Klein]

Hi Troy,

I can't seem to get the scope parameter of the search function right ... 
I either get crashes or no results.

How do I have to initialize the scope parameter for the module search so 
that I get the headings for one particular Bible book as search results?

Best regards,
Tobias

On 4/12/21 9:07 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Sure Tobias,
>
> module->getEntryAttributes() will allow you to pull the headings from a
> verse, and
>
> an Entry Attributes search for '/Heading' will give you only the verses
> with Heading entries attributes.
>
> I've thrown together a quick example here, which you can use with
> something like:
>
> ./showHeadings NASB Matt-John
>
> which will give you the headings from the Gospels.
>
> https://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk/examples/tasks/findHeadings.cpp
>
> Creating this example, I found I needed to fix a bug in the engine.  The
> engine Entry Attributes search lets you search for values in the entry
> attributes (e.g., a Strong's number 1234).  In your use case, when
> searching, you don't care about the value; you only care about
> presence.  This wasn't working, but simple presence can now be searched
> for with my latest commit.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Troy
>
>
> On 4/12/21 9:31 AM, Tobias Klein wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been getting a request from a user to render section headings independently of the currently opened bible translation module.
>>
>> So for example when opening the KJV still using the section/chapter headers of the NASB.
>>
>> This would be useful in those cases when the respective bible translation module does not come with section/chapter headers, but another one does.
>>
>> A requirement would be to efficiently extract section/chapter headers from a module using the SWORD API. As of now I only see that you can iterate over the verses of a book and individually scan each verse for the headers. Is there a more efficient way of doing that?
>>
>> Another use case could be to render a book outline. This is what I am already doing now in Ezra, but in a way that is not so clean (I am traversing the DOM looking for all section header elements of the current book).
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobias
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