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If the "slighly misspelled" is due to writing after hearing,
something like the Soundex algorithm is one possible solution.
The algorithm depends on the speaker's language. There
are a few variants for English. Other languages might be
found on the internet.
-W

On 18/01/2013, Costello, Roger L. <costello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I want to determine if 'Lecur' occurs in $text.
>
> A naove solution is this XPath expression:
>
>       contains($text, 'Lecur')
>
> However, that does not take into account many important factors:
>
> 1. Perhaps 'Lecur' occurs, but in $text it is in uppercase
>
> 2. Perhaps instead of the '' ligature, $text uses 'oe'
>
> 3. Perhaps in $text 'Lecur' is split over two lines and thus is hyphenated
>
> 4. Perhaps 'Lecur' is slightly misspelled in $text and therefore requires
> fuzzy matching
>
> And there are many other important factors.
>
> Do you have an XPath solution to this problem that takes into account the
> many important factors?
>
> /Roger

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