Re: [xsl] Using memory addressing to retrieve a value vice using a software string library to retrieve a value

["Adam Retter adam.retter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are also many vendor extensions for string searches in various XML
databases that are exposed as proprietary XPath extension functions; In
addition to those that offer the Full Text extension.

...As I guess has become clear from this thread - you should benchmark the
various options available from your XPath processors of choice based, and
those should be based on your system resource constraints.
On 20 Nov 2015 19:50, "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxx" <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 16:39 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev
> > I am aware of at least two very efficient algorithms:
> >
> >   1. Using *suffix-trees*  -
> >   2. Using the hash of the search-string and scanning the given
> > string
>
> For substrings an n-gram approach can also be fast, but again it's a
> sufficiently specialized optimization that I wouldn't expect most XPath
> engines to do it unless they supported the Full Text extension.
>
> Liam