\ufffd isn't really a valid character. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.html Your XML document or data probably had some kind of encoding issue along the way somewhere.
-Yonik On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Cam Bazz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > I am trying to feed solr with xml files of my own schema, and I am getting: > > SEVERE: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: entity reference names can > not start with character '\ufffd' > > my xml is utf8 for sure, as well as the text inside. but for some reason I > get this exception and then solr crashes. > > Any ideas? > > Best Regards, > -C.B. >