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This article is part of the [[XQuery|XQuery Portal]]. It summarizes the fulltext features of BaseX. Full-text retrieval in XML documents is an essential requirement in many use cases. BaseX was the first query processor that supported the [http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-full-text-10/ W3C XQuery Full Text 1.0] Recommendation, and custom features of the implementation in BaseX.
Please read the separate [[Indexes#Full-Text Index|Full-Text Index]] section in our documentation if you want to learn how to evaluate full-text requests on large databases within milliseconds.
=Introduction=
The XQuery and XPath Full Text Recommendation (XQFT) is a feature-rich extension of the XQuery language. It can be used to both query XML documents and single strings for words and phrases. BaseX was the first query processor that supported all features of the specification. This section gives you a quick insight into the most important features of the language.
This is a simple example for a basic full-text expression:
