Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with "\" in WebHelp Search

[Peter Desjardins <peter.desjardins.us@gmail.com>]

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 <frobert@balabit.com> wrote:
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> On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 20:30 CEST, David Cramer <david@thingbag.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Indeed, I'm seeing that behavior in the current snapshot build:
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>> http://snapshots.docbook.org/xsl/webhelp/docs/?textToSearch=this+\+that#
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>> Should be easy enough to fix by removing / and \ from the search string.
>> I'll take a look.
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> 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.
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> Is there a way to work around this problem, for example, by using some escaping characters?
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> Robert
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>> David
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