[Haskell-cafe] Hoogle search scope question -- was: [HXT] Simple question

[Steve Lihn]

I have a hoogle question. While I was reading the HXT discussion
(below), I tried to search "runX" and "readString" in Hoogle (since I
am new to HXT and Arrows). But neither search yielded any result and I
had to use google to find the Haskell docs.

So I am wondering what is the scope of Hoogle that people can search?
Only things in the standard library? How much does it cover in the
Hackage? I tried to find the scope description in the Tutorial but in
vain. It is fair to say if someone needs to use Hoogle, he/she
probably has no idea what he is looking for, needless to say, what is
in scope of Hoogle or what is not.

Thanks,
Steve


On Dec 19, 2007 7:48 AM, Miguel Mitrofanov <miguelimo38 at yandex.ru> wrote:
> Seems rather strange for me, I've just installed HXT and got this:
>
> Prelude Text.XML.HXT.Arrow> runX $ readString [(a_validate,"0")] "<this> </this>" >>> writeDocumentToString []
> ["<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<this> </this>"]
>
> > Everything works fine except for the fact that all the nodes  <this>
> > </this>
> > (that is, a space (an XML text node whose contents are a single space
> > character)
> > within a <this> element node) get transformed to a  <this/>  element node,
>
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