About the Simple api: Picking up on an "old" issue. There was semi-agreement that the properties to be retrieved from a Query should be passed to GetHits, as GetHits(handle, offset, limit, props). Each time I look at this it makes me feel very weird. Are you guys sure this is what we want? Think about stateless find/grep implementations, ultra light search daemons... I would guess that at least some servers might benefit greatly from knowing what fields to extract as soon as possible. To this end I re-propose to add the props list to the Query constructor. Giving us an api like:   Query (xml, props,handle)  --> handle   GetHits (handle, offset, limit)  --> hits The most obvious problem is that it leaves the Snippets to be retrieved along side other properties - which we agreed on was a bad idea. Since each hit is uniquely determined in a query context by its sequence number, we could use that to look up additional hit metadata, fx. the snippet. Adding API like so:   GetHitMetadata (in s handle, in ai hits, in as props)  --> results What do you guys say? If you decline again I shall accept it and hold my peace regarding this issue. Cheers, Mikkel