User Guide

Participant EDML files 275

Sometimes you might want to assign the entire contents of the limited search location to a

parameter. In that case, provide no pattern, as shown in the following example:

<searchPattern>MY_OPTION_NAME</searchPattern>

</searchPattern>

</searchPatterns>

This example sets the optionLabel parameter to the entire innerHTML contents of an

OPTION tag.

<searchPattern> attributes

The following items are valid attributes of the searchPattern tag.

paramNames

Description

This attribute is a comma-separated list of parameter names whose values are being extracted.

These parameters are assigned in the order of the subexpression. You can assign single parameters

or use a comma-separated list to assign multiple parameters. If other parenthetical expressions are

used but do not indicate parameters, extra commas can be used as placeholders in the Parameter

Name list.

The parameter names should match the ones that are specified in the insertion text and the

update parameters.

Parent

searchPattern

Type

Attribute.

Required

Yes.

Values

paramName1, paramName2, ...

Each parameter name should be the exact name of a parameter that is used in the insertion text.

For example, if the insertion text contains

@@p1@@, you should define exactly one parameter

with that name:

<searchPattern paramNames="p1">patterns</searchPattern>

To extract multiple parameters using a single pattern, use a comma-separated list of parameter

names, in the order that the subexpressions appear in the pattern. Suppose the following example

shows your search pattern:

<searchPattern paramName="p1,,p2">/(\w+)_(BIG|SMALL)_(\w+)/¬

</searchPattern>