[GitHub] [incubator-flagon-useralejs] poorejc commented on issue #266: Provide a means for users to easily log HTML elements data attributes

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poorejc commented on issue #266:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-flagon-useralejs/issues/266#issuecomment-1186053223

   @kevbrowndev @EandrewJones wow timing is impeccable--of course I'm two weeks late to the convo :)
   
   Some students I've been working with have been doing some work in pulling attributes from SVG docs embedded in pages and adding those attributes to custom logs. EX: clicking around on an interactive dashboard map on [apache superset](https://superset.apache.org/), can we extract data attributes embedded within svg docs. Here's what extracted attributes look like:
   
   ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12189190/179329397-34b7a82f-e052-45ee-9a6f-bd01efc0462a.png)
   
   Methods are slightly more complicated than retrieving html attributes via .getAttribute() (have to parse xml first), so unsure that `.dataset` method will work uniformly (or at all for our use case), however, certainly the intent of the extracted data is the same.
   
   Would love to coordinate with you all on modifying the UserALE.js data schema to specifically accommodate attached properties embedded in docs. Currently, we're using custom logs with custom fields--standardized option would be better. Might be able to engineer together an elegant common solution that uses new UserALE.js params in `userale.options()` to invoke fuctions to extract attributes from different sorts of docs (html, xml). @kevbrowndev is this what you had in mind? If, we're on the same page there, then yes `packageLogs.js` is exactly the right place to embed those functions. Might also expose them through the API to assist custom log scripting....
   
   @kevbrowndev @EandrewJones can you share some examples here? I'll work with my students to do the same.
   


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