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The XQuery [9] and XPath languages [8] have evolved as powerful languages for querying XML documents. While these languages provide sophisticated structured query capabilities, they only provide rudimentary capabilities for querying the text (unstructured) parts of XML documents. In particular, the main full-text search predicate in these languages is the fn:contains($context, $keywords) function ( http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-contains ), which intuitively returns the Boolean value true if the items in the $context parameter contain the strings in the $keywords parameter. The fn:containsfunction is sufficient for simple sub-string matching but does not provide...
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Botev, C., Shanmugasundaram, J. (2009). XQuery Full-Text. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_775
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