许多聊天或问答应用程序在嵌入和向量存储之前需要对输入文档进行分块。 Pinecone 的这些笔记提供了一些有用的提示： 
当嵌入整个段落或文档时，嵌入过程会考虑整体上下文以及文本中句子和短语之间的关系。这可以产生更全面的向量表示，捕获文本的更广泛含义和主题。
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。为了解决这个问题，我们可以使用 MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter。这将按指定的标题集分割 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")]
内容按共同标题分组或分割： 
{'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'}}
让我们看看下面的一些示例。

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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(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}, page_content='Hi this is Jim  \nHi this is Joe'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar', 'Header 3': 'Boo'}, page_content='Hi this is Lance'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'}, page_content='Hi this is Molly')]

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正在分割的标题。可以通过设置 strip_headers = False 来禁用此功能。 
markdown_splitter = MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter(headers_to_split_on, strip_headers=False)
md_header_splits = markdown_splitter.split_text(markdown_document)
md_header_splits

[Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}, page_content='# Foo  \n## Bar  \nHi this is Jim  \nHi this is Joe'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar', 'Header 3': 'Boo'}, page_content='### Boo  \nHi this is Lance'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'}, page_content='## Baz  \nHi this is Molly')]
默认的 MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter 会剥离空格和换行符。要保留 Markdown 文档的原始格式，请查看 ExperimentalMarkdownSyntaxTextSplitter。

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如何将 Markdown 行作为单独的文档返回

默认情况下，MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter 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(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}, page_content='Hi this is Jim'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar'}, page_content='Hi this is Joe'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Bar', 'Header 3': 'Boo'}, page_content='Hi this is Lance'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Foo', 'Header 2': 'Baz'}, page_content='Hi this is Molly')]
请注意，这里标题信息保留在每个文档的 metadata 中。

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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(metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'History'}, 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]'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'History'}, page_content='Markdown is widely used in blogging, instant messaging, online forums, collaborative software, documentation pages, and readme files.'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'Rise and divergence'}, 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.'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'Rise and divergence'}, page_content='#### Standardization  \nFrom 2012, a group of people, including Jeff Atwood and John MacFarlane, launched what Atwood characterised as a standardisation effort.'),
 Document(metadata={'Header 1': 'Intro', 'Header 2': 'Implementations'}, page_content='## Implementations  \nImplementations of Markdown are available for over a dozen programming languages.')]

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故障排除：chunk_overlap 似乎不适用

  • 在基于标题的分割（例如，MarkdownHeaderTextSplitter）之后，使用 split_documents(docs)（而不是 split_text），以便在每个部分内应用重叠，并且每个部分的元数据（标题）保留在块上。
  • 重叠仅在单个部分超过 chunk_size 并被分割成多个块时出现。
  • 重叠不会跨越部分/文档边界（例如，# H1 → ## H2）。
  • 如果标题变成一个小块，考虑将 strip_headers 设置为 True，这样标题行就不会成为独立块。
  • 如果您的文本缺少换行符/空格，请在 separators 中保留一个后备 ""，以便分割器仍然可以分割并应用重叠。
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