Re: [Bodington-developers] Wildcards in search tool

[Colin T. <col...@ou...>]

Peter Crowther wrote:
>>From: Colin Tatham
>>I think there are two possible approaches:
>>
>>1. Use regular expressions to find possible matches of the 
>>search term 
>>in the identical_table Hashtable keys, or
>>
>>2. Execute an SQL query with wildcards on the table that contains the 
>>tokens.
> 
> 
> 3. Bite the bullet, throw away the homebrew XML repository and use
> somebody else's work.  My candidate would be eXist, which has much of
> this functionality already built in to XQuery.

:-)

Yes, we have discussed that option, which I really like. It would make 
sense to store XML metadata in an XML database!

Don't think we're about to do that yet tho..

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