Just as a note, TYPO3 uses a lot of include files though I do not remember
which specific mechanism they rely on.
Regards,
Alex
On 5 Aug 2016 10:51 AM, "John Bickerstaff" <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote:
> Many thanks for your time! Yes, it does make sense.
>
> I'll give your recommendation a shot tomorrow and update the thread.
>
> On Aug 4, 2016 6:22 PM, "Chris Hostetter" <hossman_luc...@fucit.org>
> wrote:
>
>
> TL;DR: use entity includes *WITH OUT TOP LEVEL WRAPPER ELEMENTS* like in
> this example...
>
> https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/master/solr/
> core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/schema-snippet-types.incl
> https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/blob/master/solr/
> core/src/test-files/solr/collection1/conf/schema-xinclude.xml
>
>
> : The file I pasted last time is the file I was trying to include into the
> : main schema.xml. It was when that file was getting processed that I got
> : the error ['content' is not a glob and doesn't match any explicit field
> or
> : dynamicField. ]
>
> Ok -- so just to be crystal clear, you have two files, that look roughly
> like this...
>
> --- BEGIN schema.xml ---
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <schema name="statdx" version="1.5">
> <!-- a whole lot of <field>, <fieldType>, and <copyField> declarations
> -->
> <xi:include href="statdx_custom_schema.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/
> 2001/XInclude"/>
> </schema>
> --- END schema.xml ---
>
> -- BEGIN statdx_custom_schema.xml ---
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <schema name="example" version="1.6">
> <!-- a whole lot of ADDITIONAL <field>, <fieldType>, and <copyField>
> declarations
> -->
> </schema>
> --- END statdx_custom_schema.xml ---
>
> ...am I correct?
>
>
> I'm going to skip a lot of the nitty gritty and just summarize by saying
> that ultimately there are 2 problems here that combine to lead to the
> error you are getting:
>
> 1) what you are trying to do as far as the xinclude is not really what
> xinclude is designed for and doesn't work the way you (or any other sane
> person) would think it does.
>
> 2) for historical reasons, Solr is being sloppy in what <copyField>
> entries it recognizes. If anything the "bug" is that Solr is
> willing to try to load any parts of your include file at all -- it it were
> behaving consistently it should be ignoring all of it.
>
>
> Ok ... that seems terse, i'll clarify with a little of the nitty gritty...
>
>
> The root of the issue is really something you alluded to earlier that
> dind't make sense to me at the time because I didn't realize you were
> showing us the *includED* file when you said it...
>
> >>> I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that I could duplicate the <schema ...>
> >>> </schema> arrangement from the schema.xml file.
>
> ...that assumption is the crux of the problem, because when the XML parser
> evaluates your xinclude, what it produces is functionally equivilent to if
> you had a schema.xml file that looked like this....
>
> --- BEGIN EFFECTIVE schema.xml ---
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <schema name="statdx" version="1.5">
> <!-- a whole lot of <field>, <fieldType>, and <copyField> declarations
> -->
> <schema name="example" version="1.6">
> <!-- a whole lot of ADDITIONAL <field>, <fieldType>, and <copyField>
> declarations
> -->
> </schema>
> </schema>
> --- END EFFECTIVE schema.xml ---
>
> ...that extra <schema> element nested inside of the original <schema>
> element is what's confusing the hell out of solr. The <field> and
> <fieldType> parsing is fairly strict, and only expects to find them as top
> level elements (or, for historical purposes, as children of <fields> and
> <types> -- note the plurals) while the <copyField> parsing is sloppy and
> finds the one that gives you an error.
>
> (Even if the <field> and <fieldType> parsing was equally sloppy, only the
> outermost <schema> tag would be recognized, so your default field props
> would be based on the version="1.5" declaration, not the version="1.6"
> declaration of the included file they'd be in ... which would be confusing
> as hell, so it's a good thing Solr isn't sloppy about that parsing too)
>
>
> In contrast to xincludes, XML Entity includes are (almost as a side effect
> of the triviality of their design) vastly supperiour 90% of the time, and
> capable of doing what you want. The key diff being that Entity includes
> do not require that the file being included is valid XML -- it can be an
> arbitrary snippet of xml content (w/o a top level element) that will be
> inlined verbatim. so you can/should do soemthing like this...
>
> --- BEGIN schema.xml ---
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE schema [
> <!ENTITY statdx_custom_include SYSTEM "statdx_custom_schema.incl">
> ]>
> <schema name="statdx" version="1.5">
> <!-- a whole lot of <field>, <fieldType>, and <copyField> declarations
> -->
> &statdx_custom_include;
> </schema>
> --- END schema.xml ---
>
> -- BEGIN statdx_custom_schema.incl ---
> <!-- a whole lot of ADDITIONAL <field>, <fieldType>, and <copyField>
> declarations
> -->
> --- END statdx_custom_schema.incl ---
>
>
> ...make sense?
>
>
> -Hoss
> http://www.lucidworks.com/
>
