In this weekly series, Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner is running into TypeScript errors when calling evaluateXPath and useXPath! A support issue came in from a partner who’s following the metadata […]
Fonto Why & How: Why is my useXPath giving TypeScript errors!? Read More »
A question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner found their editor to slow down while typing! A support request came in: When we load a huge document, we notice a significant slowdown in just about everything.
Fonto Why & How: Why is typing so slow?! Read More »
A question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a partner got into a fight with XPath when trying to target a specific element! A support issue came in with the following description: Hello, I am trying to select
My selector does not match?! Read More »
In this weekly series Martin describes a question that was raised by a Fonto developer, how it was resolved and why Fonto behaved like that in the first place. This week, a developer was confused why an XPath looking for a closest ancestor kept returning the document node! Let’s check the code. We are looking
Fonto: Why & How: My XPath is acting up?! Read More »
This is a technical blog post meant for developers This blog post introduces XQuery template tags, describes how we are upgrading our configuration to use them and where they are headed. This post hopes to inspire you to refactor XPaths in your editor to start benefiting from XQuery Template Tags as early as you can.
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A few days ago I wrote a fuzzer for our XPath engine. A fuzzer is essentially a tool for finding bugs in code automatically by generating random inputs for a program and seeing whether it crashes on those inputs. Take a look at the following definition from Wikipedia: Fuzzing or fuzz testing is an automated
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