Searchdocs XML 2.3 - final
Jerry Balzano
gjbalzano at popmail.ucsd.edu
Wed Mar 30 14:47:01 EST 2005
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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