landed the dictionary objects and spelling rewriter, which also allowed me to complete the configuration YAML file

htmlcheck/dict_composite.go

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+/*
+ * Amsterdam Web Communities System
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Erbosoft Metaverse Design Solutions, All Rights Reserved
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+// The htmlcheck package contains the HTML Checker.
+package htmlcheck
+
+import "strings"
+
+// CompositeDictionary is a dictionary that wraps several base dictionaries, and adds some extra behavior.
+type CompositeDictionary struct {
+	dicts []SpellingDictionary
+}
+
+// Ready returns true if the dictionary has been fully loaded.
+func (d *CompositeDictionary) Ready() bool {
+	for _, sd := range d.dicts {
+		if !sd.Ready() {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// Size returns the number of words in the dictionary.
+func (d *CompositeDictionary) Size() int {
+	rc := 0
+	for _, sd := range d.dicts {
+		rc += sd.Size()
+	}
+	return rc
+}
+
+// checkSimple passes a word to the subdictionaries to check it.
+func (d *CompositeDictionary) checkSimple(word string) bool {
+	for _, sd := range d.dicts {
+		if sd.CheckWord(word) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// checkHyphenates breaks a hyphenatewd work up into parts and checks each one.
+func (d *CompositeDictionary) checkHyphenates(word string) bool {
+	parts := strings.Split(word, "-")
+	if len(parts) == 1 {
+		return false // no hyphens
+	}
+	for _, frag := range parts {
+		// each fragment greater than 1 character must be in dictionary
+		if len(frag) > 1 {
+			if !d.checkSimple(frag) {
+				return false
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// CheckWord returns true if a word appears in the dictionary.
+func (d *CompositeDictionary) CheckWord(word string) bool {
+	if len(word) <= 1 {
+		return true // words of length 1 get a free pass
+	}
+	realWord := strings.ToLower(word)
+	if d.checkSimple(realWord) {
+		return true
+	}
+	if strings.HasSuffix(realWord, "'s") {
+		l := len(realWord)
+		base := realWord[:l-2]
+		if d.checkSimple(base) {
+			return true
+		}
+		return d.checkHyphenates(base)
+	}
+	return d.checkHyphenates(realWord)
+}
+
+// NewCompositeDict wraps an array of SpellingDictionary objects up in a composite.
+func NewCompositeDict(dicts []SpellingDictionary) *CompositeDictionary {
+	return &CompositeDictionary{
+		dicts: dicts,
+	}
+}