Re: [Bodington-developers] Wildcards in search tool

[Adam M. <ada...@co...>]

In message <441...@ou...>
bod...@li... writes:
> Peter Crowther wrote:
> >> From: Colin Tatham
> >> I think there are two possible approaches:
> >>
> >> 1. Use regular expressions to find possible matches of the=20
> >> search term=20
> >> in the identical_table Hashtable keys, or
> >>
> >> 2. Execute an SQL query with wildcards on the table that contains th=
e=20
> >> tokens.
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> For real flexible searching use something specifically for it like=20
> Lucene http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/
>=20
> I see moving to eXist for XML storage as a related but different issue,=
=20
> at the moment it happens that the XML storage is use for searching but=20
> we may find this limiting in the future if the XML structure doesn't=20
> lead to the searches we need.


I would co-ordinate with Howard on this one. It would make sense for us b=
oth to
use the same code

adam