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fix(sync): point in-page anchor links at Markdown heading slugs - #786

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In-page "On this page" links in synced documents break whenever upstream renames its anchor ids, because the converter copies #id hrefs verbatim while dropping the ids, so the links never match the Markdown headings.

Refs #781

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  • HTMLContentExtractor records each heading's id/name (on the heading tag or any element inside it, such as <a name="employee">) and maps it to the GitHub-style slug of the heading text, with -1, -2 suffixes for repeated headings. #id links to a recorded heading are rewritten to that slug; links to unrecorded ids are left unchanged.
  • The fix sits in the shared extractor, so html_selector pages and BC Laws (bclaws) pages both get it.
  • EXTRACTOR_VERSION goes from 1 to 2, so the next --sync does a full fetch and rewrites every web-sourced document. Until that sync runs, --check reports "Extraction inputs changed" for those sources, as designed.
  • The two version-bump tests now bump relative to the current value instead of hard-coding "2".

What changes for the app

After the next sync, table-of-contents links jump to the right section. For example, the criminal notification page's #employee becomes #employee-responsibility, and BC Laws #section1 becomes #definitions. This PR changes no data files. A local --sync produced the same anchors that main already has for the criminal notification page, so #781's hand-synced anchors would become broken links.

Verification

  • New tests: test_in_page_anchor_links_point_at_heading_slugs and test_bclaws_in_page_anchor_links_point_at_heading_slugs.
  • pytest tests/test_sync_sources.py tests/test_index.py tests/test_generate_knowledge_base.py ../tests/deploy_integrity/: 137 passed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added stable in-page navigation using GitHub-style heading anchors.
    • Duplicate heading titles receive unique numeric suffixes.
    • Internal Markdown links now resolve to generated anchors, including percent-encoded fragments.
    • Heading anchors preserve inline content and treat line breaks as spaces.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Links to unmatched targets remain unchanged.
    • Improved anchor behavior across supported legal content.

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Verdict: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge

Oh wait, the incremental commit is clean too. I need to sit down — twice in one PR. I had the flamethrower refuelled and everything.

The one-line change at app/scripts/sync_sources.py:483 — <br> inside a heading appends " " instead of _LineBreak("\n") — is exactly the right shape. The recorded slug comes from joining the heading's tokens (First Second → first-second) and the emitted Markdown now keeps the heading on one line, so the anchor the renderer generates and the anchor the extractor advertises finally agree. Before this, the extractor was selling tickets to a theatre that had burned down: _heading_slug collapsed the newline to a space, announcing #first-second while the rendered document offered #first plus a stray orphan paragraph. The new test pins both halves of the contract — the emitted heading and the rewritten link — which is the honest way to test it.

CodeRabbit's <br> finding on app/scripts/sync_sources.py:705 is marked "Addressed in commit 14de5da" and I confirm it is: the runtime _LineBreak marker no longer leaks into a heading.

Two earlier findings stay closed, so nobody has to relitigate them:

  • app/scripts/sync_sources.py:189 (double hyphen in section-2--scope-and-limits): withdrawn, still correct to withdraw. GitHub-style sluggers replace each space individually rather than collapsing runs, so section-2--scope-and-limits is the real anchor and app/tests/test_sync_sources.py:2531 is right.
  • app/tests/test_sync_sources.py:2507 (three blank lines): fixed — top-level defs now carry the standard two-blank-line gap.

Verification note: this is a static read-only pass. I read the changed lines and the surrounding extractor logic; I did not execute the test suite.

📊 Overall: Like a sniper who noticed the crosshair was one click off and just... adjusted it. No speeches, no drama, one line and a test. Someone frame this commit.

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Verdict: No Issues Found | Recommendation: Merge

Oh wait, this PR is actually clean. I need to sit down. I had my flamethrower warmed up and everything.

The slug-uniqueness loop in app/scripts/sync_sources.py:707 advances the suffix until it finds a free slug, which is the same shape as github-slugger's dedup — Foo, Foo 1, Foo really does land on foo, foo-1, foo-2. And the urllib.parse.unquote lookup that falls back to painting the original fragment back untouched is the right kind of lazy; unknown ids stay as they were, so nothing gets mangled on the way out.

Reconciliation of the previous pass

  • app/scripts/sync_sources.py:189 (double hyphen for Section 2 — Scope, and limits): withdrawn. GitHub-style sluggers (github-slugger / rehype-slug, the ones behind doctoc TOCs and the notorious & in headings) drop the punctuation but replace each space individually — they do not collapse runs. So section-2--scope-and-limits is the real anchor and the test at app/tests/test_sync_sources.py:2531 is correct. Collapsing the run would have broken the very links this PR exists to fix, so my earlier warning was pointing the flamethrower at the wrong door. Cheap confirmation if you want it anyway: open a synced page containing an em-dash heading in the app and read the generated id on that heading.
  • app/tests/test_sync_sources.py:2507 (three blank lines): fixed — the file now has one PEP 8-sized gap before the next definition.

📊 Overall: Like a locksmith who came back and finished the job — duplicates get unique slugs, encoded fragments get decoded, and nothing exploded. Fold the tents, I'm going home.

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Verdict: 2 Issues Found | Recommendation: Address before merge

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app/scripts/sync_sources.py 175 Slugger keeps em-dash ghost spaces → double-hyphen slugs that miss real anchors
app/tests/test_sync_sources.py 2377 Three blank lines between defs; PEP 8 wanted two

🏆 Best part: Oh wait, the setdefault on anchor_slugs and the forward-link rewriting via get_markdown post-pass is actually clean — first-id-wins, unknown ids left alone, version bump forcing a full re-sync. I need to sit down.

💀 Worst part: The slug function generates section-2--scope-and-limits with a double hyphen because it collapses whitespace before stripping punctuation — you're shipping the exact species of broken anchor this PR was born to exterminate, and the test blesses it.

📊 Overall: Like a locksmith who fixed the front door but left the back window painted shut — the mechanism is right, the finishing pass needs one more turn.

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The HTML extractor now generates stable heading slugs, maps heading and nested-element anchors, and rewrites matching local Markdown fragments. Duplicate headings receive numeric suffixes. The extractor version changes from 1 to 2.

Changes: Heading anchor normalization

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Build heading anchor mappings
app/scripts/sync_sources.py
The extractor captures heading and nested-element id and name attributes, derives normalized slugs, handles heading <br> elements as spaces, and adds numeric suffixes for duplicate slugs.
Rewrite local fragment links
app/scripts/sync_sources.py, app/tests/test_sync_sources.py
The extractor decodes and rewrites matching fragments while preserving unmatched fragments. Tests cover nested anchors, duplicate slugs, encoded fragments, heading line breaks, BC Laws output, and version changes derived from the current extractor version.

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- Around line 704-705: Update the fragment rewrite using self.anchor_slugs to
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- Around line 693-697: Update the slug assignment logic using self.slug_counts
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