How to wrap part of a text in a node with JavaScript

Question

I have a challenging problem to solve. I\'m working on a script which takes a regex as an input. This script then finds all matches for this regex in a document and wraps ea

Answer 1

function parseText( element ){
  var stack = [ element ];
  var group = false;
  var re = /(?!\s|$).*?(\.|$)/;
  while ( stack.length > 0 ){
    var node = stack.shift();
    if ( node.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE )
    {
      if ( node.textContent.trim() != "" )
      {
        var match;
        while( node && (match = re.exec( node.textContent )) )
        {
          var start  = group ? 0 : match.index;
          var length = match[0].length + match.index - start;
          if ( start > 0 )
          {
            node = node.splitText( start );
          }
          var wrapper = document.createElement( 'span' );
          var next    = null;
          if ( match[1].length > 0 ){
            if ( node.textContent.length > length )
              next = node.splitText( length );
            group = false;
            wrapper.className = "sentence sentence-end";
          }
          else
          {
            wrapper.className = "sentence";
            group = true;
          }
          var parent  = node.parentNode;
          var sibling = node.nextSibling;
          wrapper.appendChild( node );
          if ( sibling )
            parent.insertBefore( wrapper, sibling );
          else
            parent.appendChild( wrapper );
          node = next;
        }
      }
    }
    else if ( node.nodeType === Node.ELEMENT_NODE || node.nodeType === Node.DOCUMENT_NODE )
    {
      stack.unshift.apply( stack, node.childNodes );
    }
  }
}

parseText( document.body );

.sentence {
  text-decoration: underline wavy red;
}

.sentence-end {
  border-right: 1px solid red;
}

This is a sentence. This is another sentence.
This sentence has emphasis inside it.
This sentence spans two elements.