I was also doing stuff with the eCFR. Nasty structure, isn't it?

On Sunday, 2 August 2015 10:22:28 UTC+4, Michael Wiktowy wrote:
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> On Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 8:31:06 AM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
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>>
>> I'd welcome any feedback on the tool. I would also love some help in 
>> finding a better sample text, something public domain that we can 
>> re-distribute.
>>
>>
> I love it!
>
> I have been chopping up CFRs from the eCFR 
> <http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/ECFR?page=browse> to build up searchable 
> regulation tiddlywikis in much the same way to help me with my job. I have 
> been doing them manually so far and I can see this speeding things up quite 
> a bit.
>
> Feedback:
> 1) I think slicing down to the paragraph level might be too far. It adds a 
> lot of autogenerated cruft in the TOCs. There may be some need to go down 
> to this level but I would make the delimiter for levels beyond just 
> headings configurable/regexp-able. In the eCFR example above. It would be 
> useful to go down to the paragraph denoted with a lowercase letter in 
> braces and the subparagraph denoted by a number ... end even 
> sub-subparagraph denoted by lower case roman numerals ... but I don't know 
> what a good title for the paragraphs would be other than their typical 
> legal reference (i.e. §###.## (a)(1)(i)). I have not tackled splitting 
> thing up to that level manually mainly due to the work it would entail and 
> the difficulty in piecing together a tiddler name that won't be error-prone.
>
> 2) In the eCFR example, there are a lot of annoying "back to top" links 
> that I have to manually remove. It would be nice if some 
> configurable/regexp text could be excluded from the slicing import.
>
> I'll have to exercise this more (particularly slicing updated regs that 
> supersede previous ones and linked graphics)  since it looks like a great 
> tool for me.
>
> Thanks!
> /Mike
>

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