BaseX GUI: XPath suggestions / completion

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:58 PM <andre.aepli at gmx.ch> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to do some simple XPath searches (BaseX GUI 9.4.1) of the kind //name or//someThing/anotherThing/name - using the input bar. In the past, I almost always used the "find" mode and always got what is probably called Xpath suggestions (mentioned on https://basex.org/basex/gui/). This made it real quick and easy to find stuff. For example, I could type just //someT and BaseX would then provide me with a dropdown containing someThing, then I would type a slash and "ano" and BaseX would come up with "anotherThing" etc. > > However, I've been trying this now for hours and I can't find a way to bring up such suggestions. When I type the whole path myself, the find command still works, but then again in case of typos it obviously doesn't. > > The only way I got at least some suggestions is when I typed // (two slashes) - in this case I got a huge dropdown probably including everything possible for the current DB. As soon as I typed one single letter, the dropdown disappeared. > > What do I need to change in order to get my "old" function back? > > cheers, > André

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:45 PM Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi André, > > Thanks for the observation. I’ve checked our recent releases, and it > seems that the interactive path completion got corrupted with version > 9.3 of BaseX. We’ll fix this in our next snapshot and keep you > updated. > > Greeting across the border, > Christian > > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 10:58 PM <andre.aepli at gmx.ch> wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I'm trying to do some simple XPath searches (BaseX GUI 9.4.1) of the kind //name or//someThing/anotherThing/name - using the input bar. In the past, I almost always used the "find" mode and always got what is probably called Xpath suggestions (mentioned on https://basex.org/basex/gui/). This made it real quick and easy to find stuff. For example, I could type just //someT and BaseX would then provide me with a dropdown containing someThing, then I would type a slash and "ano" and BaseX would come up with "anotherThing" etc. > > > > However, I've been trying this now for hours and I can't find a way to bring up such suggestions. When I type the whole path myself, the find command still works, but then again in case of typos it obviously doesn't. > > > > The only way I got at least some suggestions is when I typed // (two slashes) - in this case I got a huge dropdown probably including everything possible for the current DB. As soon as I typed one single letter, the dropdown disappeared. > > > > What do I need to change in order to get my "old" function back? > > > > cheers, > > André