The Digital History Hacks blog has been running a nice series on using Python for digital humanities type tasks. One of the tutorials was on creating a Key Word In Context list. It made me want to write a KWIC script too, so I wrote one in javascript:
// get the word you want to find
var word = prompt('Enter the word you wish to find');
//make a regular expression to find the word
var re = new RegExp('(\\w+?\\s+?)?(\\w+?\\s+?)?'+word+'(\\s+?\\w+?)?(\\s+?\\w+?)? ','gim');
var matches = this.document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].textContent.match(re);
var report = window.open();
report.document.write('<ol>');
for(i = 0; i < matches.length; i++)
{
report.document.write('<li>'+matches[i]+'</li>');
}
report.document.write('</ol>');
And now you can strip the white space, bung a ‘javascript:’ protocol in front of it, stick it in an href of an anchor and you’ve got a bookmarklet you can drag to your bookmarks toolbar:
WordPress doesn’t seem to like bookmarklets, so I’m afraid you’ll have to turn it into a link yourself.
Click it whilst on a web page, and you’ll get a list of all the occurrences of the word in context.
It works with TEI documents, and even plain text too. (On firefox at least).
