An efficient XML keyword search with efficient ranking technique

Web users can search keyword in XML database using search engine without any knowledge of complex structured query language and XML schemas. The Keyword search will be achieved by searching and ranking process. An efficient searching and ranking method for keyword search is proposed in this paper. The main idea behind searching the keyword in the method is to select the data nodes that match the keywords and to connect them in a meaningful way. As the users are just interested in the relevant part of the results it is meaningless to provide all the connected sub trees to the users. Therefore, the proposed method will not consider the files which are not containing the keyword searched by the user. The main aim is to create a keyword search approach that utilizes the statistics of underlying XML data to return the most promising or relevant result. All the files containing the searched keyword will be assigned with a rank after applying all the techniques of indexing and searching. The most relevant result will be the file with the highest rank. The comparison of proposed technique with existing technique is done with respect to execution time and relevance. The result shows that, proposed technique is better than the existing techniques.