I'll package the changes I made and share them as soon as I can. Peter
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 3:54 PM, David Cramer <da...@thingbag.net> wrote: > Yeah, I'd be happy to merge in Peter's changes. > > David > > On 06/05/2013 02:40 PM, Morgan Hayward wrote: >> Hi Peter, >> >> If you could share with us what you did, even some breadcrumbs, I would >> certainly appreciate it. I am far from proficient in Java and would accept >> any help I can get. >> >> Regards, >> Morgan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Peter Desjardins [mailto:peter.desjardins...@gmail.com] >> Sent: June-05-13 3:02 PM >> To: Fekete Róbert >> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org >> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with "\" in WebHelp Search >> >> This problem does not occur for me in docbook-xsl-ns-1.78.0. I've tested my >> own output in Firefox 21.0 and Chrome 27.0.1453.110 m. Seems unlikely that >> it's a namespace/non-namespace thing. >> >> About technical terms like /var/log, the search indexer will strip most >> punctuation characters by default, it seems to be stripping / and \ from my >> search strings. Since I'm almost writing about file paths, code syntax, and >> other topics in which punctuation is a crucial part of search strings I need >> the search function to *not* strip punctuation. The solution I've used is to >> customize the Java indexer so that it indexes all the content twice, once >> with the default punctuation-stripping behavior, and then again with the >> punctuation in place. As a result, I can find strings like "/var/log" by >> searching for "/var/log," "var," or "log." I think this would make a good >> feature for webhelp but it does require a corresponding customization to the >> JavaScript search UI. It's not a quick change. >> >> But I don't want to hijack the discussion here. >> >> Peter >> >> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Fekete Róbert <frob...@balabit.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 20:30 CEST, David Cramer <da...@thingbag.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 06/05/2013 12:28 PM, Morgan Hayward wrote: >>>>> We've been testing this on Firefox 21.0. However, I just tested >>>>> this in >>>>> IE9 and found the sidebar disappears when you search for a >>>>> backslash (/) as well. Very strange. >>>> >>>> Indeed, I'm seeing that behavior in the current snapshot build: >>>> >>>> http://snapshots.docbook.org/xsl/webhelp/docs/?textToSearch=this+\+th >>>> at# >>>> >>>> Should be easy enough to fix by removing / and \ from the search string. >>>> I'll take a look. >>>> >>> >>> Sorry, but stripping the / and \ characters from the search strings means >>> that it is not possible to search for pathnames (for example, c:\winnt, or >>> /var/log), windows registry keys, and a bunch of other technical terms that >>> use these characters legitimately. >>> >>> Is there a way to work around this problem, for example, by using some >>> escaping characters? >>> >>> Robert >>> >>>> David >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>>> docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: >>> docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
