On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:40:00PM -0400, V S P wrote: > can Xapian, at least return the line number where the matches where > found (the text files are a few, but big) No, Xapian only stores word offsets. > also is there a way to 'batch up' a search to send multiple queries in > one shot ? No. Cheers, Olly