I know the subject has been discussed and there is a summary of discussions on the subject on the wiki. A while back I was curious as to how the Search::Tools::HiLiter and Search::Tools::Snipper modules might work with Xapian so I generated a test. I've cleaned up that test and decided to publish it. A readme is located at http://fayettedigital.com/downloads/README.html. The file can be downloade from http://fayettedigital.com/downloads/nsearch.tar. It works OK on Ubuntu 8.04 and with difficulty on Centos 5.1. There is a lot of javascript included. It uses AJAX to communicate with the perl CGI file. It requires the dojo toolkit. It's not fancy but if anyone is interested in toying with the previously mentioned modules, it's a starting point. It includes a database, the same on that I described creating in my recent wiki article. Jim.