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Re: Amaya 9.2.2 WinXP bug: Search can not find some strings in source code

From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:26:14 +0200
To: Bartolomé Sintes Marco <bartolomesintes@ono.com>
Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <200510101126.14938.vatton@inrialpes.fr>

On Thursday 06 October 2005 10:34, Bartolomé Sintes Marco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Steps to reproduce in Amaya 9.2.2 for Windows XP:
>
> 1. Create a new blank document
> 2. Open the source view and click at the beginning of the document
> 3. Open Edit > Find... menu
> 4. Write =" in the "Search for" box and Confirm
> 5. A message window is shown "Not found", but there a lot of them.

This problem should not occur with the future Amaya version as it displays the 
warning message into the Find dialog.

> I discover this bug searching for an attribute string (class="test" for
> example). I have found that most strings that include a " character are
> found, but other ones are not. Other strings that are not found: " ("
> followed by a blank space) and "? (" followed by a question mark)

In current version Amaya cannot find strings split into different elements, so 
in your case, it could find out "test" but not class="test".

>
> Best regards,
> Bartolomé Sintes (http://www.mclibre.org)

     Irène.
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