Or for Cherokee, for that matter, which is REALLY nasty, even if you're
completely XML 1.0 and Unicode compliant??!!! God forgive us all.
Chuck White
Author, Mastering XSLT, Sybex Books
http://www.javertising.com/webtech
http://www.tumeric.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 8:28 AM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] ANN: XQEngine 0.61
>
> >f) a new contains-word() function for full-text search
>
>
> I note from your web page that:
>
> The contains-word() function now allows multiple words as arguments.
> These are implicitly anded together, as in either contains-word(
> //elemName, "word1", "word2", "word3" ) or contains-word( //elemName,
> "word1-word2 word3" ) (using internal whitespace and/or punctuation
> as word separators).
>
> This doesn't seem very internationalizable. How does it work with
> languages such as Thai that have non-whitespace based rules for word
> breaking?
>
>
> --
>
> Elliotte Rusty Harold
>
> Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
> http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
>
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