Re: [bdbxml] Regular expressions in bdbxml

>      Thanks for raising this issue.  How important is this feature?   
> I happen to think that this will be a common use case.  If you do too  
> (this is a general question for the list not just Adam), drop me some  
> email and let me know.  The question is:
> 
> "Should Berkeley DB XML support an index type that optimizes access  
> to data using regular expressions?"

For our application, regular expressions are very important. It's
application for managing large dictionaries in XML format (mostly WordNet
kind). We need various searching options and one of them is searching
literals using regex (so, regex is needed only for values of one element
that contains a word or two).

I was quite surprised that db xml don't support regex, because I thought
it's needed feature.

> As a follow up, which is more important, regex or full-text?

Generally, I think regex is more important.

-- 
Adam Rambousek
email: [email protected]   www: http://www.pohadkovychlum.cz



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