: I have a valid xml document that begins:
how are you inspecting the document?
I suspect that what you actually have is a documenting containing hte
literal bytes "R&D" but some tool you are using to view the document is
displaying the $ to you as &
...OR...
your source document has the literal byts "R&D" in it, but some code
you are using is parsing that as xml and put wrtting it (over the wire) to
solr has a string literal without reencoding ("R&D")
try running "nc -l" in place of solr, and have your indexing code post to
it -- then see what you get.
Solr certianly doesn't have a problem with proerly escaped ampersands, but
it will complain about illegal xml escape sequences...
$ java -Ddata=args -jar post.jar '<add><doc><field
name="id">R&D</field></doc></add>'
SimplePostTool: version 1.2
SimplePostTool: WARNING: Make sure your XML documents are encoded in
UTF-8, other encodings are not currently supported
SimplePostTool: POSTing args to http://localhost:8983/solr/update..
SimplePostTool: COMMITting Solr index changes..
$ java -Ddata=args -jar post.jar '<add><doc><field
name="id">R&D</field></doc></add>'
SimplePostTool: version 1.2
SimplePostTool: WARNING: Make sure your XML documents are encoded in
UTF-8, other encodings are not currently supported
SimplePostTool: POSTing args to http://localhost:8983/solr/update..
SimplePostTool: FATAL: Solr returned an error:
comctcwstxexcWstxLazyException_Unexpected_character__code_60_expected_a_semicolon_after_the_reference_for_entity_D__at_
-Hoss
