simple TOC parsing example

Hi everyone -

I created a very simple example (called tocparse.js) to show parsing a TOC
as a *starting point* for the conversation regarding how much control we
want to impose over TOC structure for WP and PWP, discussed here:

https://github.com/w3c/wpub/issues/291#issuecomment-415510019

During the meeting on this there was discussion about variance in TOCs - I
am not familiar with how much TOCs might actually vary across all
industries and needs, so this script is not  intended to be a "catch all",
just a start, and has been kept simple rather than hardened.  It  shows a
simple solution for determining level of nesting and pulling out pertinent
data and returns the information in stdout.  It expects only a <nav> (or
series of <nav>s) and <a> tags within the <nav>s.

tocparse.js is a nodejs command line script, and it is available here:

https://github.com/buehlerart/tocparse

It should run on OSX, Windows or Linux variants with more or less any
version of nodejs installed.  I wrote and tested it using nodejs v 8.12.0.

As I mentioned during the meeting on this, this is a hugely simplified
version based on another tool I wrote for specific needs a while back.  It
uses xpath and xmldom for DOM parsing, which fit my needs originally.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to contact me.

Thanks,
Jeff

Jeffry Buehler

Client Solutions

@learnknowbly <https://twitter.com/learnknowbly/>

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