DITA: Create a content filter to dynamically filter content
For example, suppose your content has four programming language code snippets. You want to allow your users to select one language and have all the rest be hidden. You can add a content selector to your output so that users can select the type of content they want to see.
This content selector is a style switcher developed by hibbard.eu explained here: Using cookies with jQuery to make a simple style switcher. Although there are a variety of jQuery style switchers available, I like this one because it implements the jQuery cookie to remember the user's selection from page to page. This is critical for the content selector to work site-wide. (Without the cookie, the user would need to re-select an option with each new page.
To implement the content selector:
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