[GitHub] BigBlueHat commented on issue #21: Ability to use multiple layers of annotation.

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BigBlueHat commented on issue #21: Ability to use multiple layers of annotation.
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/issues/21#issuecomment-348224795
 
 
   The way this has been done in the past (afaik) is to keep references to the groups of DOM nodes that represent a single annotation--and juggle all the interleaved DOM nodes if/when anything changes. It's beyond inefficient, but it's what happens when you cram to trees together...
   
   So, from your example, you'd end up with something like this (pseudo code here also):
   ```html
   <p><mark data-anno-id="3">Something </mark><mark data-anno-id="1"><mark data-anno-id="3"><mark data-anno-id="2">is</mark></mark><mark data-anno-id="3"> here</mark></mark></p>
   
   <p><mark data-anno-id="345">And there's more text</mark> down here</p>
   ```
   
   Lovely, right? ? The text in each selection would be:
   1. "is"
   2. "is here"
   3. "Something is here And there's more text"
   
   Presented as a tree this looks like:
   ```html
   <p>
     <mark data-anno-id="3">Something </mark>
     <mark data-anno-id="1">
       <mark data-anno-id="3">
         <mark data-anno-id="2">is</mark>
       </mark>
       <mark data-anno-id="3"> here</mark>
     </mark>
   </p>
   
   <p>
     <mark data-anno-id="345">And there's more text</mark>
     down here
   </p>
   ```
   
   The DOM will think of (and treat) several of these `<mark>` tags as parents or children of other `<mark>` tags. The annotation software, however, would treat them as unrelated and remove/add/change their occurrences wherever they're found. Finding them is one thing (`document.querySelectorAll('[data-anno-id=3]`) creating them interleaved inside other stuff is entirely another...

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