Oxygen XML Author plugin 13.2.0

Text Editor Specific Actions | 378Finding and Replacing Text in the Current FileThis section explains how to use the find and replace features of the application.The Find All Elements / Attributes DialogThis dialog is opened from menu Edit > Find All Elements... . It assists you in defining XML elements / attributessearch operations on the current document.Figure 165: Find All Elements / Attributes dialogThe dialog can perform the following actions:• Find all the elements with a specified name.• Find all the elements which contain or not a specified string in their text content.• Find all the elements which have a specified attribute.• Find all the elements which have an attribute with or without a specified value.All these search criteria can be combined to fine filter your results.The results of all the operations in the Find All Elements / Attributes dialog will be presented as a list in the messagepanel.The dialog fields are described as follows:• Element name - The target element name to search for. Only the elements with this exact name are returned. Forany element name just leave the field empty.• Element text - The target element text to search for. The combo box beside this field allows you to specify that youare looking for an exact or partial match of the element text. For any element text, select contains in the combo boxand leave the field empty.If you leave the field empty but select equals in the combo box, only elements with no text will be found. Select notcontains to find all elements which do not have the specified text inside.• Attribute name - The name of the attribute which needs to be present in the elements. Only the elements whichhave an attribute with this name will be returned. For any / no attribute name just leave the field empty.• Attribute value - The combo box beside this field allows you to specify that you are looking for an exact or partialmatch of the attribute value. For any / no attribute value select contains in the combo box and leave the field empty.If you leave the field empty but select equals in the combo box, only elements that have at least an attribute with anempty value will be found.Select not contains to find all elements which have attributes without a specified value.• Case sensitive - When this option is checked, operations are case sensitive.