Re: [Bodington-developers] Wildcards in search tool

[Brian P. C. <bm...@bm...>]

> 
> Peter Crowther wrote:
> 
> >>Before taking this radical approach it would be important to 
> >>determine 
> >>that the replacement would be equally capable. (E.g. capable 
> >>of handling 
> >>accent insensitive searching which is vital for searching non-english 
> >>text by users who aren't sure how to type accented characters 
> >>into the 
> >>search tool or for searching text which may have optional accents or 
> >>incorrect orthography, not to say Japanese text which may have been 
> >>entered in either of two phonetic systems.)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I *think* http://exist.sourceforge.net/xquery.html#N10474 says eXist, at
> >least, can do this natively.
> >  
> >
> I think it's saying that the built in query engine can process the right 
> kind of query but I've found an unresolved bug report from earlier this 
> month on the Saxon SourceForge project that shows that it doesn't work 
> [bug1444006]. It's also not clear to me that the indexing in eXist can 
> be configured to support such queries - the documentation on creating 
> indices makes no mention of collations at all. So I'm suspicious that 
> this kind of query could be very slow - also searching for text with 
> multiple key words won't be helped at all since eXist supports these via 
> extention syntax to XML Query which doesn't provide the option to 
> specify the collation or match strength like the standard XML Query text 
> matching functions. This is all based on a very quick trawl through the 
> eXist web site so I might be wrong.
> 
> I think Bodington XML repository is still a nose ahead of the 
> competition 

Berkeley XML DB?

Brian

and won't be put out to pasture just yet.  ;-)
> 
> Jon
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