On Dec 16, 2007 6:43 PM, Yona Shlomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thinking data-mining: feed your files into an XML database > (e.g., http://exist.sourceforge.net/, > http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/xml/index.html) > and then use either SQL or XQuery in order to query them.
Interesting. The added challenge in my case is that much of the data of interest is encoded textually in the game event description field, using a limited English grammar of combined stock subphrases, such as "Player X did Y with a Z to Q; W followed." That field has to be parsed and its data contents extracted to produce the actual event data fields. Querying the original XML files would therefore seem to be inadequate. The original data has to be transformed before it can be efficiently queried. > Not necessarily by you. If you use XML databade, you might > only need to define semantics (e.g., schema, relations between names > and types) Unfortunately, I'd also have to define a grammar and semantics for the textual description field. I doubt that functionality exists integrated into an XML database. Jason _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
