<oXygen/> XML Author provides user actions common in any text editor:
The Find All Elements dialog opened with the menu entry → assists you in defining "search for XML elements" operations on the current document. As a result, the dialog can perform the following:
Find all the elements with a specified name
Find all the elements which contain a specified string in their text
Find all the elements which have a specified attribute
Find all the elements which have an attribute with a specified value
All these search criteria can be combined to fine filter your results.
The results of all the operations in the Find All Elements dialog will be presented as a list in the Message Panel.
The dialog fields are described as follows:
- Element name
The target element name to search for. Only the elements with this exact name are returned. For any element name just leave the field empty.
- Element text
The target element text to search for. The combo box beside this field allows you to specify that you are looking for an exact or partial match of the element text. For any element text, select contains in the combo box and leave the field empty.
If you leave the field empty but select equals in the combo box, only elements with no text will be found.
- Attribute name
The name of the attribute which needs to be present in the elements. Only the elements which have an attribute with this name will be returned. For any/no attribute name just leave the field empty.
- Attribute value
The attribute value The combo box beside this field allows you to specify that you are looking for an exact or partial match of the attribute value. For any/no attribute value select contains in the combo box and leave the field empty.
If you leave the field empty but select equals in the combo box, only elements that have at least an attribute with an empty value will be found.
- Case sensitive
When this option is checked, operations are case sensitive.