On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:40:58PM -0500, Sig Lange wrote: > Perhaps there is a bug in the query parser? Which version of Xapian are you using? CVS HEAD has a rewritten QueryParser, though I don't see why this wouldn't work in 0.8.5. But anyway, try printing query.get_description() which shows what query actually is. Cheers, Olly