Hi John, What about using the intersect operator on the two result sets ? Best regards, Fabrice Etanchaud Questel/Orbit De : basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] De la part de John Best Envoyé : vendredi 28 novembre 2014 10:35 À : basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Objet : [basex-talk] How to use ft:search() for querying 2 or more phrases? Hi BaseX Team, The subject itself is explanatory. I have following query - ft:search("Articles", ("electromagnetic waves"), map { 'mode':='Phrase' })/ancestor::Doc return $x This query searches for "electromagnetic waves" as a phrase. I want to search another phrase "electromagnetic particles" with the previous phrase. List only those Articles having both these phrases. -- Have a nice day JBest