Oxygen XML Forum

Hello,
I use the following grep command to find xref elements, whatever their reference filenames are. This works well. However, when I want to use the expression solely in Oxygen, I don't get any results. Do you have any idea of the formatting or request to make it work?
Any feedback is welcome. Thanks a lot

Hi,
How about if you uncheck the "Enable XML search options" checkbox? Because this checkbox splits the XML content in intervals but your search string spans both element names and attribute values, so it's not something which for example matches just inside an attribute value.

Regards,
Radu

Hi Radu
Thanks for your answer. Unselecting this option didn't help to retrieve the elements.
Even within a topic, it doesn't seem to work although I have one xref element under my eyes.
I'll continue looking if there are other options that could help.

Hi,

This works for me in Oxygen:
Your original attempt escaped the "\+" sign meaning that it was searched as a literal + sign.
Also why not search directly for "<xref" with or without regexp?

Regards,
Radu

Problem solved!
I used this expression and I deactivated the XML search options.
Thanks for your help

Hi gbv34,

You might want to test that on an <xref> that wraps within the element:
If that does not match, consider something like
as there can be cases where the opening tag and even the closing bracket can be word-wrapped onto another line (although perhaps not in your DITA source, but definitely in ours).

This is an excellent tip, Chris! Thank you!