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Hi guys I've just had a thought about something we do with our search on ReportBuyer.com: we cater for both American and British English in our searches and we have had plans for a while now to implement something that allows users to find 'colour' and 'color', 'tap' and 'faucet' by doing some clever programming. Looking at the Xapian docs, though, it appears

...P_MATCH_NOTHING", and it takes no subqueries. I believe this should be public, since it may be useful for people trying to write their own query parsers, rather than relying on the builtin query parser. It's possible that a similar approach would be a neat solution for representing "alldocument" queries. Currently, a special query term can be created which matches all documents by creating a leaf query for which the term is the null string. This is a somewhat "magic" and unobvious approach - instead, we could introduce an "OP_MATCH_ALL" nullary operator, whi...