adding <SpanPositionRange> into XML Query Parser

lucene/CHANGES.txt

@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ Improvements
 * LUCENE-8906: Expose Lucene50PostingsFormat.IntBlockTermState as public so that other postings formats can re-use it.
   (Bruno Roustant)
 
+* SOLR-13663: Introduce <SpanPositionRange> into XML Query Parser (Alessandro Benedetti via Mikhail Khludnev)
+
 Optimizations
 
 * LUCENE-8922: DisjunctionMaxQuery more efficiently leverages impacts to skip

lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/CoreParser.java

@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ public class CoreParser implements QueryBuilder, SpanQueryBuilder {
     spanFactory.addBuilder("SpanFirst", sft);
     queryFactory.addBuilder("SpanFirst", sft);
 
+    SpanPositionRangeBuilder sprt = new SpanPositionRangeBuilder(spanFactory);
+    spanFactory.addBuilder("SpanPositionRange", sprt);
+    queryFactory.addBuilder("SpanPositionRange", sprt);
+
     SpanNotBuilder snot = new SpanNotBuilder(spanFactory);
     spanFactory.addBuilder("SpanNot", snot);
     queryFactory.addBuilder("SpanNot", snot);

lucene/queryparser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/builders/SpanPositionRangeBuilder.java

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.lucene.queryparser.xml.builders;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.queryparser.xml.DOMUtils;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryparser.xml.ParserException;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanBoostQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanPositionRangeQuery;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+
+/**
+ * Builder for {@link SpanPositionRangeQuery}
+ */
+public class SpanPositionRangeBuilder extends SpanBuilderBase {
+
+  private final SpanQueryBuilder factory;
+
+  public SpanPositionRangeBuilder(SpanQueryBuilder factory) {
+    this.factory = factory;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public SpanQuery getSpanQuery(Element e) throws ParserException {
+    int start = DOMUtils.getAttribute(e, "start", 1);
+    int end = DOMUtils.getAttribute(e, "end", 1);
+    Element child = DOMUtils.getFirstChildElement(e);
+    SpanQuery q = factory.getSpanQuery(child);
+
+    SpanPositionRangeQuery query = new SpanPositionRangeQuery(q, start, end);
+
+    float boost = DOMUtils.getAttribute(e, "boost", 1.0f);
+    return new SpanBoostQuery(query, boost);
+  }
+
+}

lucene/queryparser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/SpanPositionRangeQuery.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+-->
+
+<SpanPositionRange start="9" end="11">
+  <SpanTerm fieldName="contents">sugar</SpanTerm>
+</SpanPositionRange>  

lucene/queryparser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/TestCoreParser.java

@@ -135,6 +135,15 @@ public class TestCoreParser extends LuceneTestCase {
     assertEquals(q, sq);
   }
 
+  public void testSpanPositionRangeQueryXML() throws Exception {
+    Query q = parse("SpanPositionRangeQuery.xml");
+    long h = searcher().search(q, 10).totalHits.value;
+    assertEquals("SpanPositionRangeQuery should produce 2 result ", 2, h);
+    SpanQuery sq = parseAsSpan("SpanPositionRangeQuery.xml");
+    dumpResults("SpanPositionRangeQuery", sq, 5);
+    assertEquals(q, sq);
+  }
+
   public void testSpanNearQueryWithoutSlopXML() throws Exception {
     Exception expectedException = new NumberFormatException("For input string: \"\"");
     try {

solr/solr-ref-guide/src/other-parsers.adoc

@@ -1042,6 +1042,7 @@ The XmlQParser implementation uses the {solr-javadocs}/solr-core/org/apache/solr
 |<MatchAllDocsQuery> |{lucene-javadocs}/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/builders/MatchAllDocsQueryBuilder.html[MatchAllDocsQueryBuilder]
 |<RangeQuery> |{lucene-javadocs}/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/builders/RangeQueryBuilder.html[RangeQueryBuilder]
 |<SpanFirst> |{lucene-javadocs}/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/builders/SpanFirstBuilder.html[SpanFirstBuilder]
+|<SpanPositionRange> |{lucene-javadocs}/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/builders/SpanPositionRangeBuilder.html[SpanPositionRangeBuilder]
 |<SpanNear> |{lucene-javadocs}/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/builders/SpanNearBuilder.html[SpanNearBuilder]
 |<SpanNot> |{lucene-javadocs}/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/builders/SpanNotBuilder.html[SpanNotBuilder]
 |<SpanOr> |{lucene-javadocs}/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/xml/builders/SpanOrBuilder.html[SpanOrBuilder]