User Guide

Participant EDML files 273
<searchPatterns> attributes
The following items are valid attributes of the searchPatterns tag.
whereToSearch
Description
This attribute specifies where to search for the participant text. This attribute is related to the
insert location, so be sure to set each attribute carefully (see “location” on page 270).
Parent
searchPatterns
Type
Attribute.
Required
Yes.
Values
directive
, tag+tagName, tag+*, comment, text
• The directive value searches all server directives (server-specific tags). For ASP and JSP, this
means search all
<% ... %> script blocks.
Note: Tag attributes are not searched, even if they contain directives.
• The tag+tagName value searches the contents of a specified tag, as shown in the
following example:
<searchPatterns whereToSearch="tag+FORM">
This example searches only form tags. By default, the entire outerHTML node is searched. For
INPUT tags, specify the type after a slash (/). In the following example, to search all submit
buttons, use the following code:
<searchPatterns whereToSearch="tag+INPUT/SUBMIT">.
• The tag+* value searches the contents of any tag, as shown in the following example:
<searchPatterns whereToSearch="tag+*">
This example searches all tags.
• The comment value searches only within the HTML comments <! ... >, as shown in the
following example:
<searchPatterns whereToSearch="comment">
This example searches tags such as <!-- my comment here -->.
• The text value searches only within raw text sections, as shown in the following example:
<searchPatterns whereToSearch="text">
<searchPattern>XYZ</searchPattern>
</searchPatterns>
This example finds a text node that contains the text XYZ.