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