note morfeas Very helpfull indeed. But while testing it, if the splitting produce f00-100.xml and above, the meging is not applyed... in the resulting xml: <?merge subdocs = 0 :foo-01.xml?> <?merge subdocs = 0 :foo-02.xml?> <?merge subdocs = 0 :foo-03.xml?> and so one... Am i missing something or there is a problem on the index handling? P.S. like it alot! 429710 429710