TAPoR Text Analysis

Find Dates

Summary

This tool extracts dates from an HTML document. Dates can be limited to all dates, years, months, weeks, seasons, North American holidays or user defined dates (e.g. specific month(s), week(s), season(s), holiday(s)).

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Walkthrough

Example: fetch HTML from http://www.w3.org/; extract text found between <body> and </body>; extract all dates from resulting text.

Source text
1. Enter `http://www.w3.org/' in the URL field.
Subtext limited to
1. Enter body in the Elements field;
2. select All dates from the radio button group.

	URL:
	Example: http://www.w3.org/

Local file:

Summary

Determines the HTML source. HTML can be obtained from a URL or by uploading a file.

Fields

Source URL
HTML from the entered URL will be used as the data source for the analysis.

Local file
Use this field to upload a local HTML file for analysis.

Elements: (separate multiple elements with a `,')

Summary

Defines the text contained in HTML tags the dates should be extracted.

Fields

Elements
Valid HTML element names separated by comma in which the contained text will be used.

All dates
Years
Months
Weeks
Seasons
North American holidays (national and statutory)
User date:
(name of month, year, week, season or holiday)

Summary

Defines which dates the tool should extract.

Fields

All dates
Extract all possible dates from the source text.

Years
Extract years from the source text.

Months
Extract months from the source text.

Seasons
Extract seasons from the source text.

North American holidays (national and statutory)
Extract North American holidays from the source text.

User date
User-defined dates may include months, years, weeks, seasons or holidays.

Display as:

Open results in new window

Summary

Allows the user to choose how the results will be formatted and whether they should be displayed in a new browser window.

Fields

Display as
Determines the format in which results will be delivered

Open results in new window
Checking this box will display the results in a new window. This option is selected by default. In some cases pop-up blockers may disallow windows from being created, in which case this option may be de-selected.