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KateAZ

My snippets are rather large... several paragraphs. Is there a maximum size restriction for snippets before they cause the local machine to slow to a crawl?

KateAZ

Has anyone found that when using snippets, local machine performance is significantly slower (like 30-40% Flare in background)?
I am using Flare 7 and have the SVN Flare interface.

KateAZ

Is there a way to delete a snippet from a project?

KateAZ

Yes. That is it! Thank you ever so much!

KateAZ

I tried creating a new project and had the same result. I have no WYSIWYG XML Editor. I can't work.

KateAZ

An alternative is to use Google, which finds occurrences of the text strings that the forum search tool does not.

KateAZ

Flare's forum search is inadequate. I am not getting the WYSIWYG screen when I click XML Editor. Instead, I get partial code with colored tags. This stops me from being able to work. I posted this yesterday in the WebHelp forum. I had tried to search on "XML Editor" with and without the parenthesis ...

KateAZ

I had to look in every single topic with this error, find the bulleted list and change the list. It was very time consuming. I'm doing an import of a 1500 page FrameMaker book set. I've estimated about 300 hours to complete the formatting issues. The numbered lists couldn't be mapped, since there ...

KateAZ

My XML Editor looks like the following screen shot and displays the code with colored tags. It is not WYSIWYG. How do I get the WYSIWYG display back?
When I click the Text Editor, the code appears without the colored tags, which is the typcial display for the Text Editor.

Is there some setting ...

KateAZ

In a bulleted list created through Flare, there were boxes in the code for the bullets. I deleted those and the WebHelp compiles.

KateAZ

In a bulleted list created through Flare, there were boxes in the code for the bullets. I deleted those and the WebHelp compiles.

KateAZ

There is a surrogate pair compile error but I did not find an error in the code. I checked the code with a 3rd party error checker and only got an error for the upper case used in "MadCap".

I initially added this query to another post where this bug was identified in 2008:
http://forums ...

KateAZ

This error prevents compling the WebHelp.
This string started in 2008. What is the fix for this?

Thank you.

KateAZ

Is this still a bug? I got the same error. I have searched the code for an offending character and have not found one. I used CSE HTML Validator and got messages about the invalid use of "MadCap" case. However, that isn't a problem in other topics.

Suggestions?

KateAZ

I think we will have to agree to disagree.

I really had to open each topic to find these. The report didn't give me a list of the offending files.

I used to the Adobe MVPs reporting bugs rather than end users. Good to know.

KateAZ

Here is the user scenario that development might want to consider:
The compile report should identify topics with bad html. The user should not have to open each topic for the topic viewer to identify the topic.

The text Cross Reference Resolver does appear in the error message line, however, the ...

KateAZ

The messages were not related to x-refs. Nor were they related to the topics listed in the report.

The solution was to open every topic individually from within the rather large project. I found a few files that did not have a <p> before a variable name. The topics were not the ones listed on the ...

KateAZ

I have attached a complete view of the code. There is a <body> and </body> tag. This is from the file in the generated WebHelp output.

The <body> tag does not appear to be on line 6, as the message suggests, so I'm not sure what report generator considered to be line 12. I highlighted what would be ...

KateAZ

This is the message for line 12.

KateAZ

I am using the default master page.
The output file is shown here along with the error message. The paragraph tags look fine. The line is not 458 characters long.
I don't see the error or what would be wrong with the master page.
Suggestions? Thanks.

KateAZ

Please see the attached screen print. You can see that the same error messages are repeated. The same messages point to different files. The files are fine. I think the report Flare generates is off.

KateAZ

I checked the code before I posted. As I mentioned in the post:

Some of the files don't have the line mentioned.

The other files have no problem with the code. In many cases a line of code exactly the same is above the line in question.

For example, the <body> tag is fine. The line in question ...

KateAZ

When I compile WebHelp, I get message like:

Failed to update: The 'body' start tag on line 6 does not match the end tog of 'p'. Line 54, position 107.
(Problem, there is no line 54.)

Failed to update: Name cannot begin with the '>' characer, hexadecimal value 0x3E. Line 10, position 14 ...

KateAZ

My xref link was bad. So, I dragged and dropped a new one in and now I have a different style. I'll have to fix that on my end.

Still, I don't know why Flare would change xrefs as the result of a search/replace. It is all fixable.

KateAZ

There are xref errors. I used Beyond Compare and found the xref names were changed after the global search and replace. Underlines were added to the xref. (See the image attached.)

I didn't have these compile errors until after the search and replace, so that is curious.

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Re: Snippets slow performance?

Snippets slow performance?

Delete snippet from the project?

Re: XML Editor not WYSIWYG

Re: XML Editor not WYSIWYG

Re: Forum search is inadequate

Forum search is inadequate

Re: surrogate pair error

XML Editor not WYSIWYG

Re: A strange SAVE error

Re: surrogate pair error

surrogate pair error

Re: A strange SAVE error

Re: A strange SAVE error - Surrogate pair

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Failed to update: The 'body' start tag on line...

Re: Find and replace XHTML tags in multiple topics?

Re: Find and replace XHTML tags in multiple topics?