Re: [PEPr] +1 for XML::XML_Indexing

Hi Christian, Christian Stocker wrote:

Looks good to me. More XPath support would be nice, but hey, I can't have everything ;)

Thanks for your vote, some more XPath will come :-) Actually, the last thing I've been thinking of, is full-text search, that is : indexing PCDATA. This is related to my ideas about XML as a database storage format, and emulating such things as "WHERE foo LIKE 'bar%'". I thought about MySQL like full-text indexing, where you specify a certain length in caracters for your index as in "INDEX(foo(16)). In this case, it will be used for patterns like 'bar%' but not for '%bar%'. I have another idea though : word-based indexing, very much like what you find at the end of books. For each word that was found, that would associate a set of nodes that contain it. This way you would not be limited to prefix-based search as in 'bar%'. -- og