TAPoR Text Analysis

Find Text — Concordance

Summary

This tool can find text anywhere in an HTML document. The search can be narrowed to specified tags. All results are returned with a concordance of either words, sentences, lines or paragraphs.

Note: When "Paragraphs" is selected as context, the element name user entered will be overwritten by "p" tag. This may cause some confusion because some html texts do not use "p" tag to identify paragraphs. In this case, please use other options.

For more details, see here.

Walkthrough

Example: fetch HTML from http://www.w3.org/; extract text found between <body> and </body>; search resulting text for `web' and display up to ten words before and after each match.

Source text
1. Enter `http://www.w3.org/' in the URL field.
Subtext limited to
1. Enter `body' in the Elements field.
What to find
1. Select Word(s) to find and enter `web' in the adjacent text field.
Context for concordance
1. From the Context drop-down menu, select Words;
2. enter `10' in the Context length field.

	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.

» Subtext limited to

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

Summary

Limits included text to text that appears within the spacified tag(s). Multiple tags should be delimited by commas. Leaving this field empty will include all text in the aggregate.

Fields

Elements
The text extraction will be restricted to the tag(s) entered here. Multiple tags should be separated by commas.

Word/Pattern:

Summary

Filters results based on the occurence of words, phrases or patterns in the input text.

Fields

Word(s) to find
Enter a word or phrase to be searched for within the text. Separate multiple words with commas. Quotations are not needed in searching for phrases.

Pattern to Find
Enter a regular expression to search for within the text. Unix style searching may also be used.

Context:

Context length:

Summary

Allows user to define context type (e.g. words or sentences) and length.

Fields

Context

Words
places the search term in context by the specified number of words.

Lines
places the search term in context by the specified number of lines.

Sentences
places the search term in context by the specified number of sentences.

Context Length
Indicates the number of words/lines/sentences to be displayed before and after the search term for context purposes.

Display as:

Display words before and after the pattern (HTML only)

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.