Do you know the list of names? Or are you trying to identify what might be a name on the page (say two words in a row with initial caps)?
On Feb 23, 12:35 pm, sspboyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > I want to find specific names (I have a list of 320 names in an xml > file). I want to scan through a page and create a link around the > first instance for one of the names in the list. > > eg "Stephen Boyd's favourite person in the work is Fred Von Brown. > Stephen Boyd calls Fred Von Brown every day." > > would become > > "<a href="biolinkStephen">Stephen Boyd's</a> favourite person in the > work is <a href="biolinkFred">Fred Von Brown</a>. Stephen Boyd calls > Fred Von Brown every day." > > One of the gotcha's I've considered is that some people's names may > have apostrophes on them, eg "Stephen Boyd's". I'm sure there are many > more gotcha's as well but at this point I am trying to get a sense of > the feasibility of this idea. > > On Feb 23, 1:48 pm, Dave Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Well regexp would be useful if there was a pattern to people's names, > > but there isn't. > > Do you want to find any names, or a list, or a specific name?
