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Here's the query we started in class today.

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Created on Feb 10, 2014

This example demonstrates how to extract the title and author from a TEI-encoded XML document stored in a database. It shows the direct retrieval of text content from nested XML elements, returning both pieces of metadata as a sequence. The code uses the XQuery language with the `fn:doc()` function to access the document and XPath expressions to navigate the TEI namespace. It specifically traverses the `teiHeader/fileDesc/titleStmt` structure to pull the title and author values, illustrating a fundamental pattern for querying structured text documents in an XML database environment.

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