looks like we wont save the discussion for later :)
At this point though, I can't for the life of me remeber what Ryan said to convince me that it made sense to have a DocumentParser concept that UpdateHandlers could delegate to -- as opposed to the UpdateHandler doing it directly :)
We were discussing a handler that crawls an svn repository and another that may accept a single file. They should be able to share the logic of parsing a single ContentStream into a Document. Essentially, I was suggesting making a standard DocumentHandler framework (like the one in LIA that gets pointed to at least once a week for people wondering how to parse XML/PDF/TXT/etc into lucene a Document) With SOLR-104, this will be straight forward to implement. I totally agree it probably belongs in a 'tools' or 'plugins' directory along with other things that are useful, but not the focus of solr.
