Re: [bdbxml] Regular expressions in bdbxml

> Ah well, you're obviously lucky with the natural language(s) you
> applications need to support. But it's a different game with medieval
> insular French (massively variable orthography, so every query has  
> to be
> treated as a potential "misspelling" since there is no canonical  
> form) or
> Tagalog/Pilipino (where the lexical items you need to match in your  
> data are
> not the derived forms found "in the wild" and input by the user but  
> roots
> subject to sometimes extensive morpho-phonological transformations -
> affixation often munges the root and modifies the affix(es) at the  
> same
> time). From what I picked up nearly 40 years ago in Linguistics 101, I
> suspect Turkish may be even more of a moving target where matching  
> input
> terms against lexical items is concerned, and that's a language  
> that a lot
> of EU contracts are going to start requiring programmers to handle  
> Real Soon
> Now. Some of this can indeed be managed via subqueries, but I  
> wouldn't like
> to do that without support from a reasonably speedy regex  
> implementation.

An excellent point, and one I should be considering, since we'll need  
to expand our own lexicon. Maybe not medieval Freench, but ...

- Dan



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