Text Retrieval for XML-Encoded Corpora: A Lexical Approach
Liam R. E. Quin · Balisage series on markup technologies · 2009
This paper describes some modifications done to an open source text retrieval package to make it XML-aware, and contrasts this lexical approach, in which XML documents are primarily treated as sequences of characters rather than trees, with the W3C XPath 1.0 and XQuery 2.0 Full-Text facility. Specific usage scenarios are taken into consideration, including World Wide Web publication and the searching and analysis of text corpora for research purposes.