9.2 Setting up the export mode

After processing a query and viewing its results with the GraphViewer you may want to save your favourite matches for later review or processing. Just choose the Export Matches icon in the TIGERSearch main window toolbar or the Export matches item in the Query menu of the main window. The export feature can also be used if you did not yet submit a query. In this case, you can export the whole corpus.

Next, you have to select the output format: TIGER-XML format (cf. subsection 9.3) or XML piped through an XSLT stylesheet (cf. subsection 9.4).

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Figure: Setting up the export mode

Next, you have to specify an output file name. You can either type it in by hand (relative paths are evaluated with regard to the working directory) or use a file dialog by clicking on the Search button.

To restrict the export there are several options (cf. screenshot above):

All matching corpus graphs

no restriction, export all matching corpus graphs

Current matching corpus graph

export the corpus graph currently displayed in the GraphViewer

From matching corpus graph

restrict export to a range of corpus graphs

Select matching corpus graphs

restrict export to a list of matching corpus graphs separated by comma or colon (e.g. 1;3 or 1-2;3-7,19)

All non-matching corpus graphs

export all corpus graphs which do not match the corpus query

Whole corpus

export the whole corpus

Please note: Matching corpus graph in this context means the number (or position) of the graph in the forest of matching corpus graphs. Example: 1;5-9 will export the 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th matching corpus graph, but not the corpus graphs with the IDs 1, 5 etc.

Pressing the Submit button will start the export process. It can be stopped at any time.