id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
1808	Build snapshots from DOM elements	fbennett	simon	"For many sites, there are a few well-defined blocks of content that are of interest. It would save network burden and simplify translator authoring to allow extracted DOM elements to be saved in a separately generated document. The attached patches against the trunk illustrate the approach. The files are:

Diff-enable-dom-object-save.patch
  This provides a ""document:"" slot on the translator attachments object, which accepts a DOM document object.

Diff-dom-translator-utility.patch
  This is a utility for use in translators, that does the heavy lifting of building a simple web page with DOM elements provided to the function as content.

Diff-mainichi-translator.patch
  This is a sample translator that works against news articles at mainichi.jp (both the English and the Japanese sites).

This work follows on from earlier discussions that took place on zotero-dev:

http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/browse_thread/thread/7d4ed9d1710ac897

If it is feasible, it would be very convenient to have this facility available in translators."	enhancement	assigned	major		ingester	2.1			fbennett ajlyon