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support for WPF resources in definition?

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#856 opened on Sep 7, 2014

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Description

Hi,

When working in WPF, we define resources and use them.

Resource definition is made, for example, like this:

<Style x:Key="actionTemplateSelector">...</Style>

Using the resource can either be in C#, or in other Xaml files, like this for example:

<Button Style="{StaticResource actionTemplateSelector}" />

If I could search for a resource key by its definition, it will really help a lot. Today, we always do the full search and scan all the pages until we find x:key=”[the resource we searched for]”.

Is there a way to make definition search (or symbol search) work? thanks.

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OpenGrok architectureJava developmentXAML basics
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Research direction
Review existing OpenGrok analyzers for XML like languages to understand the plugin pattern. Look at the current codebase, particularly the `analyzer` package, to see how analyzers are registered and how they extract symbols. Implement a new analyzer class that parses WPF XAML files and indexes `x:Key` attributes. Test with sample XAML files and ensure the search results include resource keys. Follow the contribution guidelines in the repository to submit a pull request.