Re: Word Ladders as an example of a "Find shortest pat

http://www.morewords.com/wordsbylength
Google might find others.

If s.o. encourages me I can mail the 4-word to this mailing list, or
Dimitre can add it to his blog?

For heavier duty there's
   http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/en_US-dict
but this requires some effort to unravel as it provides stems and
encoded prefixes and suffixes. I played with the German version, but
not in XSLT ;-)

Wolfgang

On 27/11/2012, Michel Hendriksen <michel.hendriksen@xxxxx> wrote:
> Very nice! Where did you get your dictionary? Would be interesting to
> play around with this.
>
> Michel
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Dear XSLT professionals,
>>
>> In case you are interested in solving the Word Ladders problem first
>> formulated by Lewis Carroll, or just in an XSLT solution of the "Find
>> shortest path in graph" problem, you might be interested to have a
>> look at the implementation in my latest blog post:
>>
>> http://dnovatchev.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/word-ladders-or-how-to-go-from-angry-to-happy-in-20-steps/
>>
>> Any feedback about this implementation and suggestions for further
>> optimization are welcome.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Dimitre Novatchev
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