Re: Feature req.
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = What would be sooo much better would be something like...Search db=thisdb.xml...Listfields db=thisdb.xml... If you are going to add functionality that lets us create 'on the fly' databases - would you also let us interface with XML files.We have had to, too many times now, write some of the ugliest string manipulation routines that butcher tags like listwords, grep and getchars just to parse xml files.Any news here?On 20/7/02 7:35 PM, Donovan Brooke
wrote:> This is pretty cool... When does the created database (table) dissipate? > Is it alive only until the end of the hit? > > thanks, > Donovan > > > Scott Anderson wrote: > >> No plans to implement a [Change] context, but.... >> >> One context that we have created for 5.0 is a new [TABLE] context that >> allows you to create a quick, temporary, private (visible only to the thread >> that created it) database. For example.... >> >> [table name=mytable&fields=ID,NAME,PHONE] >> 1 BOB 123-1234 >> 2 MARY 234-2345 >> 3 SCOTT 345-3456 >> [/table] >> >> Then you can use the new table in any context that currently takes a db >> parameter.... >> >> [search table=mytable&....] >> >> [append table=mytable] >> >> [delete table=mytable&.....] >> >> So, for convertchars or convertwords.... >> >> [table name=MyConvertTable&fields=FROM,TO] >> 1 a >> 2 b >> [/table] >> >> [convertchars table=MyConvertTable].....[/convertchars] >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-- Andrew Simpson Web DevelopmentBlackpepper Interactive Ltd PO Box 99805 Newmarket4 Clayton Street Newmarket AucklandPh: +64 9 520-6281 Mob: 0272733270 Fax: +64 9 524-1849http://www.blackpepper.co.nz------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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What would be sooo much better would be something like...Search db=thisdb.xml...Listfields db=thisdb.xml... If you are going to add functionality that lets us create 'on the fly' databases - would you also let us interface with XML files.We have had to, too many times now, write some of the ugliest string manipulation routines that butcher tags like listwords, grep and getchars just to parse xml files.Any news here?On 20/7/02 7:35 PM, Donovan Brooke wrote:> This is pretty cool... When does the created database (table) dissipate? > Is it alive only until the end of the hit? > > thanks, > Donovan > > > Scott Anderson wrote: > >> No plans to implement a [Change] context, but.... >> >> One context that we have created for 5.0 is a new [table] context that >> allows you to create a quick, temporary, private (visible only to the thread >> that created it) database. For example.... >> >> [table name=mytable&fields=ID,NAME,PHONE] >> 1 BOB 123-1234 >> 2 MARY 234-2345 >> 3 SCOTT 345-3456 >> [/table] >> >> Then you can use the new table in any context that currently takes a db >> parameter.... >> >> [search table=mytable&....] >> >> [append table=mytable] >> >> [delete table=mytable&.....] >> >> So, for convertchars or convertwords.... >> >> [table name=MyConvertTable&fields=FROM,TO] >> 1 a >> 2 b >> [/table] >> >> [convertchars table=MyConvertTable].....[/convertchars] >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-- Andrew Simpson Web DevelopmentBlackpepper Interactive Ltd PO Box 99805 Newmarket4 Clayton Street Newmarket AucklandPh: +64 9 520-6281 Mob: 0272733270 Fax: +64 9 524-1849http://www.blackpepper.co.nz------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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