Re: [Bodington-developers] Wildcards in search tool

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

Matthew Buckett wrote:
> Peter Crowther wrote:
>> 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.

Problem with using Lucene is that it'll need to keep its own index of 
words, which will have to kept in synch with Bod. By using an XML 
database (replacing Bods) we get good searching, don't have to synch it, 
and it'll be better as managing the metadata as XML for import/export, etc

Colin

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