XQuery/Introduction to XML Search

Motivation You want to have a high-level overview of XML Search terms and technologies. Search Terms Structured Search - retaining and using the structure of a document to aid in search result ranking Search Document - a document or document fragment that is returned as the result of a search. Note that in the search examples the word "document" may imply an entire XML document or a fragment or item in such a document. Search Query - a word or phrase to find Boolean Search - a search for an XML document that is either true or false with no ordering of search results Search Hit - a match of a query to a document or document fragment Hit Scoring - a method of assigning a weight to a search result for sorting. For example if a term occurs more frequently in a document it might receive a higher score Search Ranking - an order list of search results Global Search - searching one or more item types in a database Item Viewer - a program used to view a specific item type in a collection References Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval, Cambridge University Press. 2008: online edition