On 11/23/12 5:45 PM, Robert Barbey wrote: > 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 >
Hi Robert, I am looking forward to see your patch ;-) The good news is that XTextMarkup is an unpublished interface yet and I don't expect to many SmartTag extensions yet. We will see... Normally API changes are not easy to make, especially with already published API's. Juergen
