Hi Ben,

According to the docs, a stopword list can be used to decrease the size of the full text index. I had no problems when using this list while creating a database.

Is it also possible to use this list for other purposes?

Yes. As it’s a simple word list, you can use do with it whatever you want.

According to XQueryX 3.1.pdf it is possible to use a sequence of stopwords in a query: /books/book[@number="1"]//p contains text "propagating of errors" using stop words ("a", "the", "of").

How can I use this list in BaseX while building querys?

The grammar requires the list to be a sequence of string literals. In practice, it’ll be always be a better move to supply a URI.

Is it possible to add words to the list, after that is has been loaded? Suppose that it shows that my text contains a lot of names that I want to exclude. How can I add those names to the stopwords list?

You can add your words to the text file and recreate the index based on that file.

Would it be a good approach to create a separate database for stop words and sentiments?

It depends on your requirements. TIMTOWTDI ;) Christian