3. The method as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the reducing comprises: comparing text fragments with a regular expression setting forth an indexing text fragment portion, text fragments being selectively excluded as candidates for identification as linked text fragments based on the comparing.
3. The method as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the reducing comprises: comparing text fragments with a regular expression setting forth an indexing text fragment portion, text fragments being selectively excluded as candidates for identification as linked text fragments based on the comparing. 4. The method as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the initial index-identifying text fragment portion is one of (i) a leading numeric index, (ii) a leading alphabetic index, and (iii) a leading roman numeral index.