Index: lucene/contrib/xml-query-parser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/xmlparser/builders/UserInputQueryBuilder.java
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--- lucene/contrib/xml-query-parser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/xmlparser/builders/UserInputQueryBuilder.java	(revision 1152378)
+++ lucene/contrib/xml-query-parser/src/java/org/apache/lucene/xmlparser/builders/UserInputQueryBuilder.java	(working copy)
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@
 				QueryParser parser=createQueryParser(fieldName, analyzer);
 				q = parser.parse(text);				
 			}
-			q.setBoost(DOMUtils.getAttribute(e,"boost",1.0f));
+			// use the boost of the original query here, too and multiply (which may be != 1.0f):
+			q.setBoost(q.getBoost()*DOMUtils.getAttribute(e,"boost",1.0f));
 			return q;
 		} catch (ParseException e1) {
 			throw new ParserException(e1.getMessage());
Index: lucene/contrib/xml-query-parser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/xmlparser/TestParser.java
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--- lucene/contrib/xml-query-parser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/xmlparser/TestParser.java	(revision 1152378)
+++ lucene/contrib/xml-query-parser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/xmlparser/TestParser.java	(working copy)
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 	public void testCustomFieldUserQueryXML() throws ParserException, IOException
 	{
 			Query q=parse("UserInputQueryCustomField.xml");
+			assertEquals(20.0f, q.getBoost());
 			int h = searcher.search(q, null, 1000).totalHits;
 			assertEquals("UserInputQueryCustomField should produce 0 result ", 0,h);
 	}
Index: lucene/contrib/xml-query-parser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/xmlparser/UserInputQueryCustomField.xml
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--- lucene/contrib/xml-query-parser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/xmlparser/UserInputQueryCustomField.xml	(revision 1152378)
+++ lucene/contrib/xml-query-parser/src/test/org/apache/lucene/xmlparser/UserInputQueryCustomField.xml	(working copy)
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<UserQuery fieldName="doesNotExist">Bank</UserQuery>
+<UserQuery fieldName="doesNotExist" boost="10">Bank^2</UserQuery>