An ancient but very powerful tool called Consistent Changes handles this
very easily. Program available for free at
https://software.sil.org/cc/
The table would be
'xxxx' > 'yyyyyyy'
'as many items' > 'that you like'
'very efficient' > 'but old program'
I use this program along with XSLT. I choose the best from each world.
Right now I am converting a dictionary in Word format to be input into FLEx
(our linguistic tool) for handling dictionaries. I export Word to XHTML and
then process with the context in mind with XSLT. After I have done as much
as I can here I switch to CC. There are lots of items that are better
handled with the changes tables.
Jim Albright
Wycliffe Bible Translators
704-562-1529
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 1:35 PM Liam R. E. Quin
liam(_at_)fromoldbooks(_dot_)org <
xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Thu, 2021-03-25 at 16:29 +0000, rick(_at_)rickquatro(_dot_)com wrote:
Thank you Michael. I like the idea of keeping the processing cost
constant
but I was going to use regular expressions in my map, so I may still
have to
loop through the lookup structure.
An alternative to consider is to put your input document into a map and
check each map key against all the tokens.
Liam
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