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如何按标题分割Markdown

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许多聊天或问答应用在嵌入和向量存储之前，都需要对输入文档进行分块处理。

这些来自 Pinecone 的笔记提供了一些有用的技巧

When a full paragraph or document is embedded, the embedding process considers both the overall context and the relationships between the sentences and phrases within the text. This can result in a more comprehensive vector representation that captures the broader meaning and themes of the text.

如前所述，分块通常旨在将具有共同上下文的文本保持在一起。考虑到这一点，我们可能希望特别尊重文档本身的结构。例如，Markdown 文件按标题组织。在特定标题组内创建块是一个直观的想法。为了解决这个挑战，我们可以使用 MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter。这会根据一组指定的标题来分割 Markdown 文件。

例如，如果我们想分割这个 Markdown

md = '# Foo\n\n ## Bar\n\nHi this is Jim  \nHi this is Joe\n\n ## Baz\n\n Hi this is Molly'

我们可以指定要分割的标题

[("#", "Header 1"),("##", "Header 2")]

内容会根据共同的标题进行分组或分割

{'content': 'Hi this is Jim  \nHi this is Joe', 'metadata': {'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}}
{'content': 'Hi this is Molly', 'metadata': {'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'}}

下面我们来看一些示例。

基本用法：​

%pip install -qU langchain-text-splitters
from langchain_text_splitters import MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter
markdown_document = "# Foo\n\n    ## Bar\n\nHi this is Jim\n\nHi this is Joe\n\n ### Boo \n\n Hi this is Lance \n\n ## Baz\n\n Hi this is Molly"

headers_to_split_on = [
    ("#", "Header 1"),
    ("##", "Header 2"),
    ("###", "Header 3"),
]

markdown_splitter = MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter(headers_to_split_on)
md_header_splits = markdown_splitter.split_text(markdown_document)
md_header_splits
[Document(page_content='Hi this is Jim  \nHi this is Joe', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}),
 Document(page_content='Hi this is Lance', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar', 'Header 3': 'Boo'}),
 Document(page_content='Hi this is Molly', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'})]
type(md_header_splits[0])
langchain_core.documents.base.Document

默认情况下，MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter 会从输出块的内容中剥离掉用于分割的标题。这可以通过设置 strip_headers = False 来禁用。

markdown_splitter = MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter(headers_to_split_on, strip_headers=False)
md_header_splits = markdown_splitter.split_text(markdown_document)
md_header_splits
[Document(page_content='# Foo  \n## Bar  \nHi this is Jim  \nHi this is Joe', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}),
 Document(page_content='### Boo  \nHi this is Lance', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar', 'Header 3': 'Boo'}),
 Document(page_content='## Baz  \nHi this is Molly', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'})]
注意

默认的 MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter 会去除空格和换行符。要保留 Markdown 文档的原始格式，请查看 ExperimentalMarkdownSyntaxTextSplitter。

如何将 Markdown 行作为单独的文档返回​

默认情况下，MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter 会根据 headers_to_split_on 中指定的标题聚合行。我们可以通过指定 return_each_line 来禁用此功能。

markdown_splitter = MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter(
    headers_to_split_on,
    return_each_line=True,
)
md_header_splits = markdown_splitter.split_text(markdown_document)
md_header_splits
[Document(page_content='Hi this is Jim', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}),
 Document(page_content='Hi this is Joe', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}),
 Document(page_content='Hi this is Lance', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar', 'Header 3': 'Boo'}),
 Document(page_content='Hi this is Molly', metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'})]

请注意，此处标题信息会保留在每个文档的 metadata 中。

如何限制块大小：​

在每个 Markdown 组内，我们可以应用任何我们想要的文本分割器，例如 RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter，它允许进一步控制块的大小。

markdown_document = "# Intro \n\n    ## History \n\n Markdown[9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form.[9] \n\n Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files. \n\n ## Rise and divergence \n\n As Markdown popularity grew rapidly, many Markdown implementations appeared, driven mostly by the need for \n\n additional features such as tables, footnotes, definition lists,[note 1] and Markdown inside HTML blocks. \n\n #### Standardization \n\n From 2012, a group of people, including Jeff Atwood and John MacFarlane, launched what Atwood characterised as a standardisation effort. \n\n ## Implementations \n\n Implementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen programming languages."

headers_to_split_on = [
    ("#", "Header 1"),
    ("##", "Header 2"),
]

# MD splits
markdown_splitter = MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter(
    headers_to_split_on=headers_to_split_on, strip_headers=False
)
md_header_splits = markdown_splitter.split_text(markdown_document)

# Char-level splits
from langchain_text_splitters import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter

chunk_size = 250
chunk_overlap = 30
text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
    chunk_size=chunk_size, chunk_overlap=chunk_overlap
)

# Split
splits = text_splitter.split_documents(md_header_splits)
splits
[Document(page_content='# Intro  \n## History  \nMarkdown[9] is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as a markup language that is appealing to human readers in its source code form.[9]', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'History'}),
 Document(page_content='Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'History'}),
 Document(page_content='## Rise and divergence  \nAs Markdown popularity grew rapidly, many Markdown implementations appeared, driven mostly by the need for  \nadditional features such as tables, footnotes, definition lists,[note 1] and Markdown inside HTML blocks.', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'Rise and divergence'}),
 Document(page_content='#### Standardization  \nFrom 2012, a group of people, including Jeff Atwood and John MacFarlane, launched what Atwood characterised as a standardisation effort.', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'Rise and divergence'}),
 Document(page_content='## Implementations  \nImplementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen programming languages.', metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'Implementations'})]