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Fifth Issue - searching

From: Eduardo Gutentag
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:02:00 -0000

The way searching works is somewhat counterintuitive (to me) and not very usefully in some contexts. I would expect that if I'm somewhere down a tree, and I want to find something, it would be searched from that branch down, not from the very top of the tree... For instance, if I'm all the way down in docbook/sgml/4.3 and I want to see if there are any html files down there, and I enter "html" in File Name Search, I would expect the system to return only those files that contain the string 'html' from there on down. Instead, I get 67 pagefuls of all the html files (and directories called html) in the whole library. Perhaps the search can be refined in some manner? This is very counterintuitive, and I can only imagine the confusion it will cause when searching wsrm and getting ws-rx/wsrm ;-) (IT people, ask Robin or Mary to explain to you what this means...) -- Eduardo Gutentag | e-mail: [email protected] Technology Director | Phone: +1 510 550 4616 (internal x31442) Corporate Standards | Sun Microsystems Inc. W3C AC Rep / W3C AB / OASIS BoD 496