Re: [Bodington-developers] Wildcards in search tool

[Matthew B. <mat...@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.

For real flexible searching use something specifically for it like 
Lucene http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/

I see moving to eXist for XML storage as a related but different issue, 
at the moment it happens that the XML storage is use for searching but 
we may find this limiting in the future if the XML structure doesn't 
lead to the searches we need.

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