Hi everyone, for a Writer extension, we're traversing a document using the Java text iteration API. The text is extracted and sent to a server backend for linguistic analysis. This server returns a report containing corrections for the current document which the extension needs to map back into the document. All of this is based on XTextRange objects.
In order to highlight these corrections within document, we are using smart tags. But with the existing XSmartTagRecognizer interface it's not possible to determine reliably the absolute position of the text that is to be processed in the recognize method of the interface. To be able to do that we would need an XTextRange object as argument. This, of course, would require a change of the XTextMarkup interface so that it also supports committing markup for XTextRanges. In the attached file, you find a patch that adds this functionality. It would be really great if you could review these changes and provide feedback for improvements or if you think that we have missed something essential. WE think that this addition could be beneficial to other extensions as well. Thank you very much and have a nice weekend. Best, Robert
