TAPoR Text Analysis

Find Words -- Concordance

Summary

This tool can find text anywhere in an XML document using the Find Text tool. The search can be narrowed to specified elements or attributes, and all results are returned with a concordance of either words, sentences, lines or surrounding elements.

For more details, see here.

Walkthrough

Example: fetch XML from http://www.xml.com/1999/03/ie5/first-x.xml; extract text from <para> tags; search the resulting text for instances of `Microsoft'; display up to 5 words before and after each match.

Source text
1. Enter `http://www.xml.com/1999/03/ie5/first-x.xml' in the URL field.
Subtext limited to
1. Enter `para' in the Elements field.
What to find
1. Enter `Microsoft' in the Word/Pattern to find field.
Context for concordance
1. Select the Ignore elements option;
2. select words from the Context drop-down menu;
3. enter `10' in the Context length text field.

	URL:
	Example: http://www.globalautonomy.ca/global1/articles/RA_Balibar_Strangers.xml

Local file:

Summary

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

Fields

Source URL
Text from the entered URL will be used as the XML source for the analysis.

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

Elements:

Attribute name:

Attribute value:

Summary

Limits text for analysis to text that appears within elements listed in the Elements field. Attribute names and values can also be used to further limit which elements are included in the results.

Fields

Element
The element you want to add to the word/pattern (this one is mandatory)

Attribute name
The attribute name you want to added along with the element.

Attribute value
The attribute value you want to assigned to the attribute name. The attribute name and attribute value are optional but they must come in a pair.

Word/Pattern to find:

Summary

Searches for occurences of text or text that matches a regular expression.

Fields

Word/Pattern to find
Enter a word or phrase to be searched for within the text. To search for more than one word, please separate with a comma. Quotations are not needed in searching for phrases.

Ignore elements

Context:
Context length:

Use elements:

Closest element
Surrounding element:

Summary

Determines whether XML elements should be used when searching for a word's context.

Fields

Ignore elements
Leave tags out of the results and just display found text.

Context
Method of searching for the collocation of the search term.

Context length
The number of words/lines/sentences that are returned as results of the collocation.

Use elements
Include elements in results.

Closest Element
Displays the element in which the text is found.

Surrounding Element
Specifies the context in which you would like the results to display for concordance.

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.