Gabriel Farrell wrote:

>A Google search on "lucene
>xquery parser" (no quotes) brings up Nux and Jackrabbit.  I don't know
>much about either project, but they seem to be working already on the
>future we're talking about.
>
>
Now this sounds promising.  This is exactly what I would be looking
for.  An XQuery interface to lucene.  Or, what Thom has said.  Maybe a
system that allows multiple interfaces to lucene: XQuery, Sru,
opensearch, etc.

Andrew