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[fix] Cross-references keep edited text and break at spaces - #1239
InDesign keeps text typed over a cross-reference’s generated text until the cross-reference is updated, and the page number in it stays live. The IDML importer dropped that text and rebuilt it from the format. A credits list whose format reads Page : Last, First. "." YYYY. Volume X, issue Y. therefore showed those placeholders instead of the names and dates typed in.
CrossRef gains text (the edited text, with for the live page) and page (the page last shown).
Import keeps saved text only when it no longer reads the way its format produces it. Cross-references nobody edited still update from their format.
IDML export writes edited text back with InDesign’s XRefPageNumber variable.
xref.setFormat drops the edits, as InDesign does.
Edited text whose destination is gone shows its saved page instead of “??”.
Spaces in a cross-reference’s text are word spaces the line may break at. Before, the text was set as one unbreakable piece, so long ones broke mid-word. Page numbers and text variables still never break.
Tests: edited_text_is_recognised (doc), keeps_edited_cross_reference_text (IDML import, fallback page, round trip) and cross_reference_text_breaks_at_its_spaces (compose, fails on main).
Edited cross-reference text is preserved when documents are imported from or exported to IDML.
Page numbers in edited cross-references remain live and update when the destination is available. If it is missing, the saved page number is shown instead.
Bug Fixes
Cross-reference text now wraps at spaces rather than breaking within words.
Changing a cross-reference’s format regenerates its text using the selected format.
InDesign keeps text typed over a cross-reference's generated text (until the
cross-reference is updated), with its page number still live. The IDML
importer dropped that text and generated it again from the format, so a
credits list whose format reads "Last, First. ... YYYY. Volume X, issue Y."
showed those placeholders instead of the names and dates typed in.
- CrossRef gains `text` (edited text, `<pageNum />` for the live page) and
`page` (the page last shown). Import keeps saved text that no longer
reads as its format produces it; export writes it back with InDesign's
XRefPageNumber variable. Setting a format drops the edits, as InDesign does.
- Edited text whose destination is gone shows its saved page, not "??".
- Spaces in a cross-reference's text are word spaces the line may break at
(it was set as one unbreakable piece, so long ones broke mid-word).
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Cross-references now retain edited text and the last displayed page through IDML import and export. Composition uses the current destination page when available, otherwise the saved page. Cross-reference text also breaks at spaces.
Changes: Cross-reference text retention and display
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Summary
Cross-reference state and format updates crates/doc/src/xref.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/xref.rs
CrossRef stores optional edited text and page values. Helpers identify text that matches format literals and expand page-number tokens. Format changes clear stored text.
IDML import and export crates/idml/src/import/story.rs, crates/idml/src/export/story.rs, crates/idml/src/tests.rs, ROADMAP.md
Import retains saved text and page values when saved text differs from the selected format. Export preserves edited text and emits live page-number variables. Tests cover edited and unedited references through a round trip.
Cross-reference text composition crates/compose/src/xref.rs, crates/compose/src/shape.rs, crates/compose/src/tests.rs
Composition expands edited text with the current destination page or the saved page when the destination is unavailable. Replacement glyphs preserve spaces as line-break points.
sequenceDiagram
participant IDMLImporter
participant StoryBuilder
participant CrossRef
participant IDMLExporter
participant IDMLDocument
IDMLImporter->>StoryBuilder: collect saved text and displayed page
StoryBuilder->>CrossRef: retain text and page when text differs from format
IDMLExporter->>CrossRef: read edited text and page
IDMLExporter->>IDMLDocument: emit text and live page-number variables
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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 97b42
Edited cross-reference text can be silently lost on IDML import when it only adds text around the format's literal parts. Unedited cross-references with default quoted formats can also freeze into fixed text after a round trip and stop updating from their destination. Fix the format-matching logic before merging; the tracked-change case is a smaller gap.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 97b42
The change remains document-scoped, with no new privilege or cross-document access identified. However, an ordinary round trip can incorrectly turn generated wording into a persistent override, preventing later destination edits from updating it. Resetting the format provides a recovery path.
Retained concerns
Low · architecture · inferred: The generated-versus-edited classification is not stable under the application's own round-trip representation. Default quoted formats generate typographic quotes, but matches_format requires the format's straight-quote literals. On reimport, generated wording can therefore become a durable edited-text override and stop following destination wording changes. The base regenerated that content instead. Format reset can clear the override, limiting the issue to recoverable document-state ownership rather than a security-boundary failure.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated new state-integrity exposure is cross-reference content within a document and its subsequent exports. Following the inspected target-resolution and package-writing paths did not establish a new cross-document or service-level authority transition.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Imported override segments reach the existing XML serializer as text nodes, not raw XML. The serializer escapes text and attributes, while page markers produce fixed variable elements. Compared with the base's generated-text emission, the new path does not bypass that output-encoding control.
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🟠 Major · Preserve edited cross-reference text until its target is available. · xref.rs:65-83
crates/doc/src/xref.rs:65-83 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Preserve edited cross-reference text until its target is available.
matches_format searches only for ordered literals. Therefore See "2. Intro" on page <pageNum /> matches the Full Paragraph & Page Number format. The importer then sets text to None, and export regenerates the reference without See .
The importer cannot compare the complete generated text at this point. It classifies the source while target is still 0, but paragraph, paragraph-number, anchor-name, chapter, and file-name values come from Document::xref_values(target). Keep the saved source text until the hyperlink pass assigns the target. Then compare it with the selected format expanded from those destination values, using the saved page value for <pageNum /> and the same quote normalization as the exporter. Set text to None only when that complete comparison matches. Otherwise retain the saved text and page.
This preserves ordinary references with dynamic paragraph or title values and retains user-added prefix or suffix text. The current behavior permanently loses those words during import and export, so this is a major data-integrity issue in the supported IDML import workflow.
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Review comment at @crates/doc/src/xref.rs around lines 65 - 83:
Update the importer’s use of matches_format so it does not discard saved
cross-reference text before the hyperlink pass assigns a target. After
assignment, compare the complete text generated from the selected format using
Document::xref_values(target), the saved page value, and the exporter’s quote
normalization; set text to None only on a full match, otherwise retain the saved
text and page.
Add coverage for a missing ResultText at the IDML import boundary.
Both TextVariableInstance elements currently provide ResultText. Add a reachable malformed-input case that omits ResultText and asserts the importer’s established fallback.
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Review comment at @crates/idml/src/tests.rs around lines 4200 - 4223:
Add a reachable malformed-input case to keeps_edited_cross_reference_text (or a
focused neighboring test) with a TextVariableInstance that omits ResultText,
then assert the importer’s established fallback for the missing value.
The token-membership check does not prove that the lines preserve the expected output. For example, it would accept duplicated issue and a missing final token because every remaining token is still in words. The line-count check does not close this gap.
Rejoin the lines and compare the result with the expected text. The original final period remains after the cross-reference, so keep the period in format!("See {shown}.").
♻️ Suggested fix
- let words: Vec<&str> = format!("See {shown}.").leak().split(' ').collect();- for l in &lines {- for w in l.split(' ').filter(|w| !w.is_empty()) {- assert!(words.contains(&w), "a line breaks inside a word: {w:?} in {lines:?}");- }- }+ let full = format!("See {shown}.");+ let rejoined = lines.iter().map(|l| l.trim_end()).collect::<Vec<_>>().join(" ");+ assert_eq!(rejoined, full, "lines must rejoin at spaces only: {lines:?}");
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Review comment at @crates/compose/src/tests.rs around lines 7317 - 7321:
Replace the token-membership loop with an assertion that rejoins the lines at
spaces and compares them to the exact expected text from `format!("See
{shown}.")`. Trim line-ending whitespace before joining so the check preserves
all tokens and the final period while allowing the intended line breaks.
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Review comments at @crates/idml/src/export.rs:
- Around line 2487-2514: In keeps_edited_cross_reference_text, assert the
generated Story XML directly for the edited CrossReferenceSource, including its
TextVariableInstance with ResultText="7" and the expected Content runs. Scope
the assertion to that edited cross-reference so it does not match the other
cross-reference in the story.
Review comments at @crates/idml/src/import.rs:
- Around line 3434-3452: Add coverage for a cross-reference source with more
than 16 nested CharacterStyleRange elements in xref_saved_text, and assert the
intended fallback when the depth limit is exceeded, such as an error, warning,
or explicit truncation.
- Line 3441: In the TextVariableInstance match guard, replace the broad Name
substring check with an exact AssociatedTextVariable match for the built-in
XRefPageNumber reference, so similarly named user-defined variables are not
treated as page variables.
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Review comments at @crates/doc/src/xref.rs:
- Around line 65-83: Update the importer’s use of matches_format so it does not
discard saved cross-reference text before the hyperlink pass assigns a target.
After assignment, compare the complete text generated from the selected format
using Document::xref_values(target), the saved page value, and the exporter’s
quote normalization; set text to None only on a full match, otherwise retain the
saved text and page.
---
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Review comments at @crates/compose/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 7317-7321: Replace the token-membership loop with an assertion
that rejoins the lines at spaces and compares them to the exact expected text
from `format!("See {shown}.")`. Trim line-ending whitespace before joining so
the check preserves all tokens and the final period while allowing the intended
line breaks.
Review comments at @crates/idml/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 4200-4223: Add a reachable malformed-input case to
keeps_edited_cross_reference_text (or a focused neighboring test) with a
TextVariableInstance that omits ResultText, then assert the importer’s
established fallback for the missing value.
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Add a direct structural assertion for the edited cross-reference export.
keeps_edited_cross_reference_text checks the model after import_idml(&export_idml(&d)), but it does not inspect the generated Story XML. Assert the edited CrossReferenceSource directly, including its TextVariableInstance with ResultText="7" and the expected Content runs. Scope the assertion to the edited cross-reference because the story contains two cross-references.
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In keeps_edited_cross_reference_text, assert the generated Story XML directly
for the edited CrossReferenceSource, including its TextVariableInstance with
ResultText="7" and the expected Content runs. Scope the assertion to that edited
cross-reference so it does not match the other cross-reference in the story.
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Add coverage for unsupported cross-reference source nesting.
xref_saved_text is a changed import boundary. It returns without an error when a CharacterStyleRange chain exceeds depth 16, so the importer can silently truncate saved text. Existing cross-reference tests cover normal nesting and shallow saved text only. They do not establish the fallback for unsupported nesting.
Add a deeply nested CharacterStyleRange source and assert the intended fallback, such as an error, warning, or explicitly truncated text.
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Add coverage for a cross-reference source with more than 16 nested
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Match the page variable by AssociatedTextVariable.
Name.contains("XRefPageNumber") also matches user-defined variables. The importer can then convert their text to <pageNum /> and store their ResultText as the page. Use the exact built-in reference and add a fixture with a similar name but a different associated reference.
Suggested fix
- "TextVariableInstance" if c.get("Name").is_some_and(|n| n.contains("XRefPageNumber")) => {+ "TextVariableInstance"+ if c.get("AssociatedTextVariable")+ == Some("dTextVariablen<?AID 001b?>TV XRefPageNumber") =>+ {
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In the TextVariableInstance match guard, replace the broad Name substring check
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The IDML import and export of edited cross-reference text move to import/story.rs and
export/story.rs with upstream's split.
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- Line 427: Extract the edited cross-reference emission branch in story_para,
near the match on x.text, into a focused helper to bring the function’s Clippy
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- Around line 447-448: Update xref_saved_text to recurse through Change wrappers
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extraction of the edited text and saved page while leaving existing
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- Line 56: Update the edited-text check around matches_format so saved text is
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Compare saved text with the complete generated text before discarding it.
matches_format only finds the format’s literal parts in order. For the format Page <pageNum />, saved text such as Page 7, revised passes that check. The importer then sets text to None and permanently loses , revised. Compare against the generated cross-reference text, with page-number values accounted for, before treating saved text as unedited.
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Review comment at @crates/idml/src/import/story.rs at line 56:
Update the edited-text check around matches_format so saved text is compared
with the complete generated cross-reference text, accounting for generated
page-number values, before it is discarded. Preserve any saved text that differs
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Read saved text inside tracked-change wrappers.
If a Change element wraps a Content or TextVariableInstance inside a CharacterStyleRange, this extractor skips it. The story importer already handles Change wrappers at Lines 294-304, so this path can import the cross-reference marker while losing its edited text and saved page. Recurse into the supported wrapper when extracting cross-reference text.
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Update xref_saved_text to recurse through Change wrappers when they contain
supported Content or TextVariableInstance elements, preserving extraction of the
edited text and saved page while leaving existing CharacterStyleRange handling
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Keeps story_para under clippy's cognitive-complexity limit, which upstream now enforces.
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Major · Recognize exported typographic quotes as generated text. · story.rs:56
crates/idml/src/export/story.rs:56 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Recognize exported typographic quotes as generated text.
The default formats contain straight quotes, but xref::expand exports typographic quotes. On reimport, matches_format therefore returns false, so the importer stores text: Some(...) and page: Some("?") for an unedited cross-reference.
A resolved destination can still provide a live page number, but the false edited state prevents the generated destination text from updating.
Normalize the format before extracting its literal parts. The fix belongs in crates/doc/src/xref.rs, not at crates/idml/src/export/story.rs:56.
Suggested fix
pub fn matches_format(text: &str, definition: &str) -> bool {
+ let definition = typographic_quotes(definition);
let mut rest = text;
- for part in literal_parts(definition) {+ for part in literal_parts(&definition) {
match rest.find(part) {
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Review comment at @crates/idml/src/export/story.rs at line 56:
Update xref::matches_format to normalize the format definition with
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InDesign keeps text typed over a cross-reference’s generated text until the cross-reference is updated, and the page number in it stays live. The IDML importer dropped that text and rebuilt it from the format. A credits list whose format reads Page : Last, First. "." YYYY. Volume X, issue Y. therefore showed those placeholders instead of the names and dates typed in.
CrossRef gains text (the edited text, with for the live page) and page (the page last shown).
Import keeps saved text only when it no longer reads the way its format produces it. Cross-references nobody edited still update from their format.
IDML export writes edited text back with InDesign’s XRefPageNumber variable.
xref.setFormat drops the edits, as InDesign does.
Edited text whose destination is gone shows its saved page instead of “??”.
Spaces in a cross-reference’s text are word spaces the line may break at. Before, the text was set as one unbreakable piece, so long ones broke mid-word. Page numbers and text variables still never break.
Tests: edited_text_is_recognised (doc), keeps_edited_cross_reference_text (IDML import, fallback page, round trip) and cross_reference_text_breaks_at_its_spaces (compose, fails on main).
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