Wildcard filtering

This note is meant to start a place for discussion of the pros/cons of
filtering using wild cards. The original idea was raised to the TC in this
note:
 http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/200511/msg00000.htm

It was also raised on the dita-users list here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/1272

The submitter was asked to open up an RFE for the toolkit. She opened one
here, where you can find her design, and a patch that implements it:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1363426&group_id=132728&atid=725076

Please respond to this note with any comments, concerns, misgivings, etc.

Thanks,

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit