Ben C. wrote:
I am evaluating XMLMind Editor for a client of mine. I am very familiar
with Madcap Flare and found XMLMind when I was looking for an equivalent
product.
I really like it, but I cannot recommend it to my client because I
cannot perform targeted searches. For example if I search for "Key
analysis" using XMLMind, I get all results containing "key" and
"analysis" as shown in the image below even when I deactivate stemming:
I have looked at the Javascript related to the search functionality in
the Compiler and it appears that this is a significant code change for a
user such as myself.
Can you apply an update to support targeted searches so that only "key
analysis" results are returned in relation to the example above? Madcap
Flare supports this functionality but I am hoping to move away from
Madcap Flare.
xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com replied:
That's right, searching for "Key analysis" gets you all the pages containing both the
"key" and "analysis" words.
There is currently no way to search the Web Help for a sequence of words. That
is, the quotes are completely ignored and
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"Key analysis"
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is considered to be equivalent to
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analysis key
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We'll try to implement the "search for a sequence of words" feature in the next
version of XMLmind Web Help Compiler (https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/whc.shtml) which is a
small, free, open source, software component, used by all XMLmind products, including
XMLmind XML Editor (https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/).
We are very sorry but we will not implement the search functionality you
have requested a couple of weeks ago.
After looking at the code, we have found an efficient way to implement
the "search the Web Help for a sequence of words" functionality but this
would require substantial changes in XMLmind Web Help Compiler.
Therefore, unless there is sufficient demand for this functionality, we
do not plan to implement it. For now, there is no such demand. Sorry again.
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