PDF link: explanation

sferda0 · Post by **sferda0** » Mon May 14, 2001 5:57 pm

T-Stoners,

Could someone provide some insight into what the #xml information in the PDF link is supposed to do:

http://mysite.com/products/pdfs/po/5114 ... ch/xml.txt

Thanks, Steve

Post by **mark** » Mon May 14, 2001 6:07 pm

It provides hit markup info to the adobe acrobat browser plugin so that it knows what words to hilight. If you don't care about hit markup within the pdf documents you can omit it.

If you're curious you can submit the url after xml= with your browser to see what the data is.

sferda0 · Post by **sferda0** » Tue May 15, 2001 10:39 am

Thanks, but when I try the URL after the xml=, I always get:

Warning: 'delimiters' not allowed in query
Warning: 'intersects' not allowed in query

My original search is "pressure". Looking over the code for this function (xml), I suspect that the $Body argument passed to pdfxml contains the offending chars, but I don't know how to fix this. If I supress the warnings, the query just dies quietly and returns empty XML markup.

Any help? Thanks.

Steve

Post by **mark** » Tue May 15, 2001 10:56 am

In your <a name=xml> function you need

<apicp alwithin 1>
<apicp alintersects 1>

See http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/ ... ple/search

sferda0 · Post by **sferda0** » Tue May 15, 2001 11:15 am

Mark, again, thanks. Another question: when I search for two words (say "High Pressure"), the xml function only creates markup for one of the words:

<XML>
<Body Units=words color=#00FF00 mode=active version=2>
<Highlights>
<location pg=0 pos=4 len=1>
</Highlights>
</Body>
</XML>

Can you point me to a manual page (while muttering RTFM quietly)?

Thanks, Steve.

Post by **mark** » Tue May 15, 2001 11:54 am

If the words are adjacent, it may only highlight one. Otherwise all occurences of each word should be highlighted.