Re: [xml2rfc-dev] [Ext] RFC 7991 issue #37: Schema Issue, RFC 7991, In Section 2.12, <br>

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

On 2018-10-04 16:52, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2018, at 7:34 AM, Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2018-10-04 16:25, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>>> On Oct 3, 2018, at 9:31 PM, Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>>> Because putting a <br> in running text prevents you from being able
>>>>> to search for the whole phrase. This was one of the explicit reasons
>>>>> to prevent them everywhere, and titles and section names are
>>>>> particularly important examples. You might search for a title of "of
>>>>> Generating Datagrams" but would never think of searching for "of
>>>>> Generating<br>Datagrams" or even . "of Generating <br>Datagrams"
>>>> 
>>>> I'm sorry, but I think this is incorrect.  In rendered context, whether
>>>> text/plain, text/html, or application/pdf, this would not be an issue --
>>>> the search tools would not see any <br> (in text and pdf because it
>>>> would not be part of the text; in html, because html search tools already
>>>> disregard html's <br>).
>>>> 
>>>> In the context of an editor, working on the xml, a phrase search is just
>>>> as likely to fail because the text has been broken across a line, and
>>>> contains multi-space indentation, which again would prevent an in-editor
>>>> phrase search.  This is a reality I live with every day ,:-)
>>> 
>>> Neither of those is what I was referring to: I was referring to searching the corpus of RFCs or Internet Drafts.
>> 
>> Using which search tool?
> 
> grep for now, hopefully something more formal later when the corpus has more XML.

In that case, if you want to do phrase searches, you'll still have to deal
with these elements embedded in the phrase: 

  bcp14, cref, em, eref, iref, list, relref, strong, sub, sup, tt, xref

(I've excluded some deprecated elements).  Adding <br> to the set doesn't
seem to make any difference to how you have to write your grep expression,
and the same thing would go for a future custom search tool.


	Henrik