Indexation des documents XML : Un DataGuide annoté avec un index de contenu

Indexing in classical information retrieval brings few tools for the treatment of the semi-structured documents: the representations of documents in information retrieval were conceived for flat and homogeneous documents. They are not adapted to the simultaneous treatment of the structure and the contents. Several approaches of indexing semi-structured data was proposed to resolve this new challenge which the most known is DataGuide. This paper presents a new approach of indexing semi-structured documents based on DataGuide allowing the conciliation between content and structure due to a virtual link which is not being a part of the index but built only at the time of the indexation and the