FM 7.2: Is there a way to Find a cross-ref and Replace it with another cross-ref?

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:17:49 +0100, Steve Rickaby 
<srickaby at wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Xrefs in MIF look like this:
>
>To a para with a Heading 1 tag in same file...
>
>   <XRef
>    <XRefName `Heading & Page'>
>    <XRefSrcText `53801: Heading1: Heading 1'>
>    <XRefSrcIsElem No>
>    <XRefSrcFile `'>
>    <XRefLastUpdate  1340295100 0>
>    <Unique 999233>
>   > # end of XRef
>
>To another file...
>
>   <XRef
>    <XRefName `Heading & Page'>
>    <XRefSrcText `53801: Heading1: Heading 1'>
>    <XRefSrcIsElem No>
>    <XRefSrcFile `<c\>Xref test.fm'>
>    <XRefLastUpdate  1340295244 0>
>    <Unique 999231>
>   > # end of XRef
>
>where the target of the xref is in a file called 'Xref test.fm'. 
>Note that this field is present, but blank, in the first example.

Be careful *not* to change the <Unique> part if you do
that.  In fact, change as little as you can, just the
<XRefSrcText> if you want to change the source in the 
same file.

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>    http://mif2go.com/