: Thank you very much Erik. This is exactly what I was looking for. While at : the moment I have no clue about these numbers, they ruby formatting makes it : much more easier to understand.
Just to be clear, regardless of *which* response writer you use (xml, ruby, json, etc...) the default behavior is to include the score explanation sa a single string which uses tabs/newlines to deal with the nested (this nesting is visible if you view the raw response, no matter what ResponseWriter) You can however add a param indicating that you want the explaantion information to be returned as a *structured data* instead o a simple string... https://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters#debug.explain.structured ...if you wnat to programatically process debug info, this is the recomended way to to so. -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
