Searching for stuff in a hierarchy

[Joshua Oransky]

	I have a hierarchy that is utilizing inheritance; that is, my app  
consolidates all information on an entire hierarchy on a single node.

	This means that information is spread across the hierarchy, but I  
want my searches to come up with only the end node...

        For example, take this hierarchy:

/country
        /state
                /city
                        /house

	I want my searches to only return house nodes, but the house node  
doesn't contain information about the city, state, or country. Is  
there a way to collapse the hierarchy for searches, so that a search  
for, say, "California" returns all the houses in California, not the  
California node?

        Thanks! -Josh