[sword-devel] Efficiently extracting section + chapter headers

[Tobias Klein]

Thanks, Troy.

The issue was that I previously hadn't used this:

mgr.setGlobalOption("Headings", "On");

My new helper function now works after using that call initially.

Best regards,
Tobias

On 5/22/21 11:09 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
> Hi Tobias. Have a look at sword/examples/cmdline/search.cpp. I believe 
> it takes an optional range parameter.
>
>
>
> On May 22, 2021 7:49:48 PM GMT+02:00, Tobias Klein 
> <contact at tklein.info> wrote:
>
>     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
>         <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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