A system for full text search integration in XQuery for a binary object XML repository includes XQuery interpreter module(s) for implementing the XQuery language and function dispatcher module(s) for implementing the XQuery function calling mechanism. Search function implementation module(s) implement the component search function and interpret the full-text search query syntax. The search function postings resolution manager module(s) compute the candidate elements for search query resolution, and postings module(s) return all XML nodes that contain a specified token, with a token corresponding to a piece of XML syntax.