Jump to a a particular tag by number

[feedee]

Oxygen XML Author has a Find > Go to option, which enables you to jump to a specific line number in Text mode. In Author mode, would it be possible to have an option that lets you jump to a particular tag number e.g. go to the 57th <p> tag in a topic or the 99th <topicref> in a map? This would be useful for debugging builds, where the log (presented in an HTML page) reports issues with specific numbered tags in files. The source file itself could be error-free, but conditional or other processing could cause such errors to be generated. Thanks

[Radu]

Hi,

You can use our XPath toolbar for such cases.
For example if you want to see where the 55'th topicref is in the DITA Map you should execute this XPath:

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(//*[contains(@class, ' map/topicref ')])[10]

The element check is done using the DITA @class attribute because there may be other references to topics which are not explicitly named "topicref", for example you could have "chapter" or "keydef".

Regards,
Radu

[feedee]

Works a treat! Many thanks Radu!