Re: Search functionality in the generated Web Help

Ben C. wrote:
> 
> I am evaluating XMLMind Editor for a client of mine. I am very familiar 
> with Madcap Flare and found XMLMind when I was looking for an equivalent 
> product.
> 
> I really like it, but I cannot recommend it to my client because I 
> cannot perform targeted searches. For example if I search for "Key 
> analysis" using XMLMind, I get all results containing "key" and 
> "analysis" as shown in the image below even when I deactivate stemming:
> 
> I have looked at the Javascript related to the search functionality in 
> the Compiler and it appears that this is a significant code change for a 
> user such as myself.
> 
> Can you apply an update to support targeted searches so that only "key 
> analysis" results are returned in relation to the example above? Madcap 
> Flare supports this functionality but I am hoping to move away from 
> Madcap Flare.
> 

That's right, searching for "Key analysis" gets you all the pages 
containing both the "key" and "analysis" words.

There is currently no way to search the Web Help for a sequence of 
words. That is, the quotes are completely ignored and
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"Key analysis"
---
is considered to be equivalent to
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analysis key
---

We'll try to implement the "search for a sequence of words" feature in 
the next version of XMLmind Web Help Compiler 
(https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/whc.shtml) which is a small, free, open 
source, software component, used by all XMLmind products, including 
XMLmind XML Editor (https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/).

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