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+Lucene Indexing Demo illustrates how one can parse and index XML documents
+using a SAX2 or DOM with Lucene.
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+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<document>
+<properties>
+<author>Aruna</author>
+<author>Otis Gospodnetic</author>
+<title>Lucene Indexing Demo</title>
+</properties>
+
+<body>
+
+<section name="Description">
+<p>Lucene Indexing Demo illustrates how one can parse XML documents
+using a SAX2 or DOM and index them with Lucene.</p>
+</section>
+
+</body>
+</document>
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