17. The capture element of claim 11 , wherein the attribute comprises a selected one of a credit card number, a credit card number attribute, a phone number attribute, an email addresses attribute, a bank routing number attribute, a social security number attribute, a confidentiality marker attribute, a web site attribute, an executive officers list attribute, a medical condition attribute, a medical diagnoses attribute, a confidential project name attribute, and a salary or compensation attribute.
11. A capture element, comprising: a processor; a memory configured to be accessed by the processor; an interface configured for receiving an object in a network environment, wherein a search query can be received and include a first regular expression, and wherein the first regular expression comprises a string according to one or more syntax rules, the first regular expression being mapped to a first attribute, the first attribute being included amongst a plurality of attributes provided in an attribute map, and wherein the plurality of attributes each represent respective regular expressions; and a parser configured to only parse the regular expressions related to attributes that have not been found in the object, wherein if a parsing activity identifies a match for the first regular expression in the object, then other regular expressions that contain the first attribute are not searched for the search query.