Searching in Oxygen - "Ignore extra white spaces" not working properly

[Anonymous1]

Hi,

our XML topics can sometimes contain line breaks or white spaces that somehow influence the Oxygen search function.

For example

I want to search a certain keyword. In the Oxygen Text view, the keyword can look like this:

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<keyword keyref="product_name"

    />

In the search window, I type <keyword keyref="product_name"/> and activate "Ignore extra white spaces". The result shows me some matches for the search term, but not necessarily all matches. I would expect to find all matches for the search term, no matter how many white spaces are included in the term in the topics.

Am I expecting too much from the "Ignore extra white spaces" function? I thought it's intended for this exact use case.

Thanks,

Benjamin

[Radu]

Hi Benjamin,

I think your expectations are correct.
If you describe a precise case in which this does not work (paste in a codeblock some DITA content) we could try to fix it.

Regards,
Radu

[Anonymous1]

If I reference the topic (code below) in a ditamap and then use the "Find/Replace in Files" dialog to search for the product name keyword, I get different results depending on how many white spaces I put in the "Text to find" field. "Ignore extra white spaces" is alway activated. Using Oxygen 19.0 with a custom framework.

Wrong search result when searching for:

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<keyword keyref="product_name"/>

Correct search result when searching for:

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<keyword keyref="product_name"

   />

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<?xml-model href="urn:smtg:dita:rng:smtg_concept.rng" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>

<?xml-model href="urn:smtg:dita:rng:smtg_concept.rng" schematypens="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron"?>

<concept xml:lang="en-US" id="test_topic_c">

 <title>Test title</title>

 <shortdesc>This is a test.</shortdesc><prolog>

  <author>Test</author>

  <critdates>

   <created date="2017-07-15"/>

   <revised modified="2017-12-21"/>

  </critdates>

 </prolog>

 <conbody>

  <p>Hello how are you <keyword keyref="product_name"

   />, test test test.</p>

  <p><keyword keyref="product_name"

    /> test test test.</p>

 </conbody>

</concept>

[Radu]

Hi Ben,

Thanks, I understand now.
Instead of that special checkbox you can probably enable regular expressions and search for <keyword(\s*)keyref="product_name"(\s*)/>.
The "Ignore extra white spaces" basically also uses regular expressions underneath, if you try to search for <keyword keyref="product_name"/> it will try to compose a regular expression looking like this: <keyword(\s+)keyref="product_name"/> so that no matter how many whitespaces are between the keyword and the attribute it will still match them. But it does not do anything about relaxing the match of the "/>" with possible previous white spaces.
I will add an internal issue on our side, maybe based on your example we can improve the behavior.

Regards,
Radu

[Anonymous1]

That would be nice. Getting more familiar with regular expressions is also a good idea. Thanks for providing an example for this.