Linkify the specification

docs/tools/linkify.js

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+// Work in progress: tooling to linkify the HTML produced from
+// the MessageFormat v2 markdown.
+// this has been tested on the tr35-messageformat.html file
+// but not implemented in LDML45
+
+	const terms = new Array();
+
+	function findTerms() {
+	   document.querySelectorAll('dfn').forEach(generateAnchor);
+	   console.log(terms.length);
+   }
+
+	function generateAnchor(item, index) {
+    // debugging: print the list of terms
+		// console.log(index + ": " + item.textContent);
+		let t = generateId(item.textContent);
+		terms.push(t);
+		item.setAttribute('id', t);
+	}
+
+	function linkify() {
+		const links = document.querySelectorAll('em');
+		links.forEach(checkLink);
+		// console.log(terms.length);
+	}
+
+	function checkLink(item) {
+		var t = generateId(item.textContent);
+		if (terms.includes(t)) {
+			link(item, t);
+	  } else {
+      // check that these are all just italicized strings that aren't terms
+			console.log(t);
+	  }
+	}
+
+	function link(item, target) {
+		var a = document.createElement('a');
+		a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(item.textContent));
+		a.href = '#' + target;
+
+    // 'dfn' (or maybe other markup) appears inside the 'em'
+		var el = item.lastElementChild;
+		if (el) {
+		   el.innerHTML = '';
+		   el.appendChild(a);
+		} else {
+		   item.innerHTML = '';
+			 item.appendChild(a);
+	  }
+	}
+
+	function generateId(term) {
+		var retval = '';
+		if (term.endsWith('s') && term !== 'status') {
+			retval = term.substring(0, term.length - 1);
+		} else {
+			retval = term;
+		}
+		retval = retval.replaceAll(/ /g, '-');
+		return retval.toLowerCase();
+	}