V5 development progress - Additional Minor Improvements

[David]

Some other minor changes in Zoom V5,

-The ability for Zoom to output the search results with encoded HTML entities (eg. "&" etc. as opposed to "&"). This will help with W3C validation, possible browser issues, and XML/RSS validation.

- Highlighting of search words should be more accurate

- The spacing between words and punctuation characters should be better preserved in the search results context description. In V4, there were sometimes additional space characters around punctuation characters.

- "Start index time" and "Elapsed index time" have been added to the Indexer Status tab. So you can see how long Zoom has been running for. This is useful for large indexing jobs.

[o0bago0ba]

validation

Just interested in this;

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-The ability for Zoom to output the search results with encoded HTML entities (eg. "&" etc. as opposed to "&"). This will help with W3C validation, possible browser issues, and XML/RSS validation.
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I have v5 and am getting many validation errors - are the encoded html entities you mention something you have to select in configuration?

here are some examples of the validation errors;

# Error Line 80 column 127: non SGML character number 145.

...h" onclick="”clickclear(this," ��Search’)” onblur="”clickrecall

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# Error Line 80 column 128: end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.

..." onclick="”clickclear(this," ��Search’)” onblur="”clickrecall(

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# Info Line 80 column 8: start tag was here.

<input type="text" name="zoom_query" class="zoom_searchbox" size="13" va

# Error Line 80 column 134: non SGML character number 146.

...ick="&rdquo;clickclear(this," ‘Search’)” onblur="&rdquo;clickrecall(this,&

i'd really like to eliminate these if at all possible... (this is with asp output btw)

thanks in advance
Jas

[Ray]

# Error Line 80 column 127: non SGML character number 145.

...h" onclick="&rdquo;clickclear(this," ��Search’)” onblur="&rdquo;clickrecall

# Error Line 80 column 128: end tag for "input" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.

..." onclick="&rdquo;clickclear(this," ��Search’)” onblur="&rdquo;clickrecall(

These are all HTML and Javascript code that is NOT part of the default Zoom output. This is most likely HTML/JS that you have inserted in your "search_template.html" file, or you have modified the "search.asp" script.

Zoom's default output is validated. But if you insert invalidated code into the template page (or modify the search script) then it will naturally, output your invalidated code.

From what I can tell, the most obvious problem in the above code is the use of invalid characters in the string "��Search" (the square boxes). Also there appears to be an incorrect mix of single and double quote characters used in your JS.

# Info Line 80 column 8: start tag was here.

<input type="text" name="zoom_query" class="zoom_searchbox" size="13" va

This could be a part of Zoom's output (or it could be a search form you added/modified manually in HTML). But it's hard to tell if the problem is caused by the other errors in your template above or not (which is very likely, given the error message).

Try fixing the errors on your search page (or revert back to the default search template and script code) first, and if you continue to have validation problems - give us the URL to your page and we can take a look.

[o0bago0ba]

Excellent...

many thanks for your response - I will start the search for bugs!