On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:47:32PM +0200, David Nuescheler wrote: > > ok, but what if i need to find some node by the part of it's name? > > The query //*[starts-with(name(),'node4')] > > complains about starts-with function, which is not implemented. As I can see > > from the documentation (JSR 170) there're no starts-with and name > > functions.. > because of limitations of existing commercial repositories complex > path operations have been excluded from the spec. i would advise to search > or filter based on properties instead. this seems to be something > that may be more portable amongst repositories, even if we would (and i am > not saying we should) implement something like a start-with > method in jackrabbit.
Well, okay, but even if I will have some property to search for, will I be able to use contains() function in similar way as starts-with? > ... and to be totally honest, i would really be interested in the use case > that > you are operating on. why would someone look for a node name starting > with 'node4' ?? Well, I'm just testing the JackRabbit's performance, i'd like to know the speed I could archieve if I need to search for something. -- Eugene N Dzhurinsky
