Hi, in my project, users look for text nodes containing certain words. However, some of these queries result in a very large number of hits, with a lot of irrelevant ones. Is it possible to search with excluding xqueries? For example in this document <p>A B C D E F</p> <p>A B D E F C</p> <p>A B D E F</p> <p>A B D F</p> when looking for [text() contains contains text "A" ftand "B" ftand "E" ordered distance at most 3 words] I would like to make explicit, that "C" should not occur at all, to ensure to find only the third node, not the first nor second one -- i.e., "C" should not occur outside the sequence, nor inside the sequence. Is this possible at all? Can I also specify a query where "C" would be allowed to occur outside the sequence, like in the second node, but not inside like in the first node? Or the other way around? Best regards Cerstin -- Dr. phil. Cerstin Mahlow Universität Basel Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften Fachbereich Deutsche Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft Nadelberg 4 4051 Basel Schweiz Tel: +41 61 267 07 65 Fax: +41 61 267 34 40 Mail: cerstin.mahlow@unibas.ch Web: http://www.oldphras.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.