Find/Replace Dialog Box — Find Tag/Attribute Tab
Searches from the current cursor location for any combination of tag name, attribute name, and attribute value. You can also search in the file entity files referenced in your document as well as the current document file.
The Find Tag/Attribute tab contains the following options:
• Tag Name — Searches for the text box contents. Enter the tag name for the search in the text box or choose it from the list.
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You can specify the real name of a tag or its alias.
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To specify an end tag, prefix the tag name with a slash. In this case, the Attribute Name and Attribute Value fields are disabled. Include angle bracket tag delimiters when you enter the optional tag name. Arbortext Editor assumes the name entered is complete. For example, if you enter chap for chaphead, none would be found. You may enter a regular expression or a list of element names. Whether or not the search is case-sensitive is determined by the setting of NAMECASE GENERAL in the SGML Declaration for the document type.
• Attribute Name — Searches for the text box contents. Enter the attribute name, if any, for the search or choose it from the list. You can use a real name or an alias. Whether or not the search is case-sensitive is determined by the setting of NAMECASE GENERAL in the SGML Declaration for the document type.
• Attribute Value — Searches for the text box contents. Enter the attribute value, if any, for the search. If you do not specify an attribute value, any attribute value will match.
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If you have applied an alias map to the document, the attribute value can be either a real name or an alias.
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• Value Search Options — Controls the precision of an attribute value search:
◦ Exact Match — Specifies that the attribute value must exactly match the value you enter.
If not selected, an attribute value matches if the entered value is found anywhere within the attribute value string.
◦ Match Case — Specifies that the attribute value search is case-sensitive.
◦ Match Patterns — Specifies that the entered value is to be treated as a regular expression.
• Direction — Determines the direction of the search from the current cursor location. Click the desired option button. The Down option is the default.
◦ Up — searches toward the top of the document.
◦ Down — searches toward the bottom of the document.
• Find Next — Starts and continues the search process.
You can choose to search the contents of file entities in the
Edit category of the > dialog box. Check the box for
Search File Entities on Find. The
set entityscan advanced preference setting also controls this setting.
Undeclared Tags
Arbortext Editor supports searching for undeclared elements using the Tag Name field. Arbortext Editor will not support searching for attribute names or values which might happen to be in an undeclared element.
Undeclared Attributes
For declared elements that use undeclared attributes, you can search for the name of the element. Arbortext Editor does not support searching for either the undeclared attribute's name or the undeclared attribute's value.
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