Elsevier: loss of formatting in abstract

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/proj/ads/abstracts/data/ELS/CONSYN.AST/2023/ELS.080423/2214-5524/S2214552423X00030/S2214552423000275/S2214552423000275.xml

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The bulleted points at the end of the article are being demarked with •, but without a preceeding <p> or <br>. The Elsevier XML has these elements embedded in a <ce: list>/<ce: list-item> tree, so there are no explicit line breaks; the list elements specify paragraph breaks for each bullet.

Are paragraph tags allowed in abstracts, @csgrant00 ?

[csgrant00]

I think so, at least I think they should be. I'll try to check...

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This can be addressed by updating this line of code to link the two pieces of text with a "\n" rather than an empty space:

ADSIngestParser/adsingestp/parsers/elsevier.py

Line 161 in 33ae877

abstract = abstract + " " + abs_text.get_text()

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Will also require either removing the call to self._clean_output at the end of this block, or an upstream change to base parser here:

ADSIngestParser/adsingestp/parsers/base.py

Line 43 in 33ae877

def _clean_output(self, input):