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Sometimes, keywords are not the best way to identify a resource. For instance, in a tabletop games forum you may want to map the name of spell cards to the name of its image file. This example is inspired by the Mage Wars forum Arcane Wonders.

In the following example, we use the Keywords plugin to capture card names used in normal text. We use one of the built-in filter #hashmap on the value attribute to map the name of the card to its ID. Additionally, we see how additional filters can be used to transform attributes' values. In this instance, we use strtolower() to normalize the keyword value to lowercase.

$configurator = new s9e\TextFormatter\Configurator;

// Create a map of every card name with its corresponding file
$cards = [
	"Force Crush"    => 'FWE04',
	"Sunfire Amulet" => 'MWSTX1CKQ01',
	"Wizard's Tower" => 'MWSTX1CKJ02',
	// etc...
];

// Add card names as keywords
foreach ($cards as $name => $id)
{
	// Add the card name as a keyword
	$configurator->Keywords->add($name);
}

// Get a hold of the tag used by the Keywords plugin
$tag = $configurator->Keywords->getTag();

// Set the template used to render cards
$tag->template
	= '<span class="cardPreview" data-cardcode="{[@value](https://github.com/value)}">'
	. '<xsl:apply-templates/>'
	. '</span>';

// If you want card names to be case-insensitive, you need to do three things:
// enable it in the plugin, convert the names in $cards to lowercase and set
// the keyword value to be converted to lowercase as well. Of course, if you
// want to keep keywords case-sensitive, this whole block can be skipped
$configurator->Keywords->caseSensitive = false;
$cards = array_change_key_case($cards, CASE_LOWER);
$tag->attributes['value']->filterChain->append('strtolower');

// Here we use the built-in #hashmap filter that will map the keyword's value
// to the corresponding ID
$tag->attributes['value']
	->filterChain
	->append($configurator->attributeFilters->get('#hashmap'))
	->setMap($cards);

// Get an instance of the parser and the renderer
extract($configurator->finalize());

$text = "Wizard's Tower and Force Crush";
$xml  = $parser->parse($text);
$html = $renderer->render($xml);

echo $html;

<span class="cardPreview" data-cardcode="MWSTX1CKJ02">Wizard's Tower</span> and <span class="cardPreview" data-cardcode="FWE04">Force Crush</span>