Can't stop a runaway XPath expression
Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 5:29 pm
Just now, by mistake I entered an XPath expression like this to search in a large XML document:
when I meant to put
Because of the mistake, oXygen is recursing through everything in the document tree and using 100% CPU while doing it. The program is unresponsive and I either can't click on the "STOP" square, or it isn't doing anything.
In a situation like this, is there anything that can be done to force a stop to the operation, other than killing oXygen? (I am running it under OS X, so the nuclear option is Force Quit.)
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//distinct-values(//myElement)
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distinct-values(//myElement)
In a situation like this, is there anything that can be done to force a stop to the operation, other than killing oXygen? (I am running it under OS X, so the nuclear option is Force Quit.)