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On 11/27/06, Andrew Nagy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > My only concern about lucene is the lack of a standard query language. > I went down the native XML database path because of XQuery and XSL, does > something like lucene and solr offer a strong query language? Is it a > standard? What if someone developed a kick ass text indexer in 2 years > that totally blows lucene out of the water, would you easily be able to > switch systems? XQuery is a different kind of "query" language than Lucene's at this point. There is a planned fulltext extension to the XQuery language in the works at W3C. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see, once this work is finished, someone use Lucene to implement XQuery's fulltext searching. That's my prediction anyway, Kevin