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CCliffordAnderson
Last edited Jan 22, 2015
Created on Jan 22, 2015

This visualization shows a collection of TEI-encoded texts by querying their titles and full-text content, highlighting matches for terms like “vin” or co-occurring words like “mal” and “je” within the same sentence. It first demonstrates how to list all titles in the collection, then filters those titles using XQuery Full-Text expressions via the `contains text` operator. The code uses the BaseX or eXist-db XQuery 3.0 engine, leveraging the `fn:collection()` function to access documents and the TEI namespace for element traversal, with no external visualization libraries—the output is plain text.

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