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Re: [xml-dev] Advanced text searching vs XML??? (was Re: [xml-dev] Note from ...
In a message dated 28/10/2002 20:07:46 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
Mike,
I hope your employer is encouraging the XQuery WG to get better regular expression support into XQuery 1.0. The WG seem to be rowing back a bit from the Use Case that still (for the moment) says "Full-text Search". I am concerned that the reg exp support may, in the end, be fairly feeble. I hope I am wrong.
XSLT 2.0 is better off since it is expected to have the xsl:analyze-string element to do a reasonable amount of reg exp stuff.
Andrew Watt
On one hand, one major value of XML to me (employee of XML DBMS vendor)
is to avoid the necessity of separating the "text" from the "structured
info."
Mike,
I hope your employer is encouraging the XQuery WG to get better regular expression support into XQuery 1.0. The WG seem to be rowing back a bit from the Use Case that still (for the moment) says "Full-text Search". I am concerned that the reg exp support may, in the end, be fairly feeble. I hope I am wrong.
XSLT 2.0 is better off since it is expected to have the xsl:analyze-string element to do a reasonable amount of reg exp stuff.
Andrew Watt
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