Unable to search within XSLT files

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I am a web developer, and I am evaluating DT Pro to see if I can maintain a code library that I can use as a reference in my work. So far, DT Pro seems perfect for that task, with one exception - I have a large number of XSLT files that I have imported into DT Pro, but when I search against those files, I get no results. I have also tried to index the files instead of importing, but this made no difference.

With other languages such as Javascript and Python, I can easily search for things like function names and variable names within those files … but DT seems unable to see inside my XSLT files. This seems very odd, as I am able to open these files in DT and read them with no issue - they are even syntax-highlighted.

Is there something that I need to configure in order to search within these files?

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XML files (including XSLT) are currently indexed like HTML files and therefore it’s only possible to find contents between tags (but it’s not possible to find tags or their attributes). A future release might change this though.

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Thanks for your reply … given that much of the valuable information in our XSLT files is held within attributes, this makes perfect sense. I do hope that this does change in a future version, as XSLT makes heavy use of attributes.

In the meantime, it looks like I can work around this issue by storing code snippets as plain text notes, which are searchable.