Try <str name="hl.simple.pre"><em></str> or <str name="hl.simple.pre"><![CDATA[<em>]]></str>
The bare < and > confuse the XML parsing. Best Erick On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Paden <rumsey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get some Solr highlighting going but I've run into a small > problem. When I set the pre and post tags with my own custom tag I get an > XML error > > XML Parsing Error: mismatched tag. Expected: </em>. > Location: > file:///home/paden/Downloads/solr-5.1.0/server/solr/Testcore2/conf/solrconfig.xml > Line Number 476, Column 40: <str name="hl.simple.pre"><em></str> > > I've seen it done like this on a lot of the other sites and I'm not sure if > I'm missing an escape character or something. Just to emphasize that I did > set a POST tag I put it right after the pre in solrconfig.xml like so > > <str name="hl.simple.pre"><em></str> > <str name="hl.simple.post"></em></str> > > What am I doing wrong here? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Highlighting-pre-and-post-tags-not-working-tp4217090.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.