abstract

Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Feb 21, 2000 12:15 pm

The abstract which prints in a search result does not show the text at the
top of the indexed web page. The link shows the page title, then text at
the top of the page is skipped before the abstract is selected for display.

How do I control the selection of text for the <abstract $body element

Currently using

<DD><abstract $Body 360>$'ret'...<BR>

This seems to skip from 300 - 400 characters before displaying 360
characters.

Thank

Mike Clark
super@101super.com

Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Feb 21, 2000 12:27 pm

RTM
http://www.thunderstone.com/vortexman/node137.html

<abstract> can be told to try to find the first "paragraph", hilight
the best match, or just show the first text.

Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Feb 21, 2000 1:02 pm

The shipped form of the program is trying to grab the first piece
of non-header data. This is to skip of the common nav stuff that
is present on many pages.

Subsequent versions of Webinator will optionally allow you to print
the <META ABSTRACT> data instead of the actual content.