Re: [bdbxml] Regular expressions in bdbxml

Adam,

     To be clear, we support regex but we don't have a way to index  
it just yet so access time is isn't exactly optimal.  I'll mark you  
down as a vote for 'YES, do regex please.'

-greg

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On Aug 18, 2005, at 4:04 AM, Adam Rambousek wrote:

>>      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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