hi all. i'm outputting our data to xml format for solr to consume. i have several fields storing dollar values as tdouble. they don't always exist in the outputted rows, however, at which point they throw an error and fail at indexing because the field is seen as an empty string (the log message: str = '').
for now i've gotten around this by skipping out of any output for that field in those cases, but wanted to know what the best method for circumventing this problem is in solr (if any). i'd tried a default value to no avail. thanks for any thoughts-