Dynamic glossary

[foxroberts]

Hi.

I want to build a dynamic glossary system,
which scans a saved article for glossary words
each time before it is displayed.

Have you done something like that before?
Do you have a better idea than splitting up the
article and look up for each single word if it is
explained in the glossary?

Or the other way around: Load all glossary
items and try to replace them in the article?

Thank you for any answer!

Fox

[justsomeone]

It depends on the sizes of your articles and your glossary 🙂

I wouldn't do this every time someone requests a page though. Likely to take too long, unless you have a lot of iron at your disposal.

I'd implement a "publishing" system which would have "source" and "glossary-linked" copies of each file. When a new file is uploaded, or an existing oneis changed, a "glossary-linked" copy would be auto-generated.

Likewise, when the glossary is changed, all "glossary-linked" docs are updated (or all "source" docs are republished).

This approach would mean that your users aren't waiting for the substitutions every time they request a page.