On 11/13/23 18:20, Tim Trese wrote:
> xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com wrote:
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.
As of last time I looked at this (May ’23), the “search the Web Help”
feature doesn't seem to work with non-alphabetic characters. Searching
with numbers or a string that contains periods, dashes, etc. returns no
results. Please consider this as additional demand for more of the
functionality that Ben C asked about. Our documentation has lots of
mixed strings that a customer might want to search on. I have in my
backlog to address this and there’s probably free open source libraries
to solve the problem, but if XMLmind gets to it first, so much the better.
Understood.
However please note that for now, we don't figure out how to efficiently
search the Web Help for a number or a string which contains periods,
dashes, etc.
This functionality, which is the most basic kind of search: "search for
an arbitrary string", is completely different from "search
for a sequence of words".
"Search for a sequence of words" may be implemented efficiently, that
is, without loading all the pages comprising the Web Help to search
them, because it leverages the word occurrence to page map
("_wh/search.js") created when generating the Web Help.
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