Hello, Thanks for that hint. Digester is a very comfortable way to customize the indexing of xml using lucene. And it works fine except one thing: According to the example in the article is set the addDocument method when reading the last element: Otis Gospodnetic schrieb: > I suggest you look at the Articles section of Lucene's site, in > particular an article about XML, Lucene, and Digester. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: lucene-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: lucene-user-help@jakarta.apache.org