Searchdocs XML 2.3 - final

[Jerry Balzano]

Wilhelm -

This is awesome!  FYI, however, on my Mac (OS 10.3), I am getting  
clipping of the text of the XML files in the right-hand pane.  It only  
happens for some of the queries (usually FAQ but I haven't tested  
thoroughly), and it's only the first three characters, usually only the  
first line.

- Jerry

On Mar 30, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote:

> The final version 2.3 of "SearchDocs XML" has been uploaded today to  
> <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia/Screenshots.htm>
>
> 2.3 has been thoroughly tested and seems to be satisfactorily stable  
> on Windows and MacOS X. Unless serious problems should come up - you  
> never know - there will be no further changes until the next version  
> of Revolution beyond 2.5.1 is released.
>
> Changes:
>
> - Different approach to link checking when navigating from the "found"  
> lines field, especially after a "combined search" in folders  
> "Dictionary", "Faq", and "Topics" to find the relevant folder.
>
> - Improved text extraction from the XML files: Better layout and  
> shorter "found" lines
>
> - An "update" button is now accessible in the Readme field. This  
> button can update the "pure-text" versions of the Help files (that are  
> stored as arrays in the search stack to increase the search speed) to  
> offer the option to adapt stack "SearchDocs" to possibly improved XML  
> files or to work with future versions of Revolution, provided the  
> basic XML structures of the Help files will remain the same as now.
>
> - The results of the last search will be preserved when the stack  
> closes.-
>
> Occasionally, links in the "See also" section of the fully displayed  
> articles will not work. This is caused by a number of "loose ends" in  
> the Rev Help files, namely by incomplete or wrong cross-references  
> between files in the "<docRef src=" parts of the XML files that define  
> the linktexts.
>
> I have already mentioned such deficient cross-references in earlier  
> posts, which also cannot work in the Rev Documentation itself.
>
>
> A few examples:
>
> -  
> "faq/ 
> Why_do_fonts_and_colors_change_when_I_create_a_standalone_application.x 
> ml"
> The corresponding name of the XML file however has been shortened -  
> like so many others in the Faq folder - to  
> "te_a_standalone_application.xml".
>
> - "reference/operator_precedence_referen .rev", a link in "Topics",  
> has one space too many before ".rev"
>
> - a typo in a file name: "scripts_and_thier_structure.xml"
>
> - a folder "about" that does not exist:  
> "about/About_Revolution_system_requirements.xml"
>
>
> --Wilhelm Sanke
> <http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia>
>
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