Could it be that your XML contains a .... control character, code 3? ;) Check the table on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
Otis -- Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR ----- Original Message ---- > From: György Frivolt <gyorgy.friv...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 8:54:20 AM > Subject: SolrException caused by illegal character > > Hi, > I upgradeed to Solr 1.4 and tried to reindex the data. After few > thousand of reindexed documents an exception is thrown, I did not meet > this using 1.3 before. Do you have any idea what caused the problem? > Thanks. > > SEVERE: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Illegal character > ((CTRL-CHAR, code 3)) > at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [6495,39] > at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.load(XMLLoader.java:72) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:54) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:131) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:1316) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:338) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:241) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1089) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:365) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:712) > at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:211) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139) > at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:285) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:502) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:835) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:641) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:208) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:378) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:226) > at > org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:442) > Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxUnexpectedCharException: Illegal > character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 3)) > at [row,col {unknown-source}]: [6495,39] > at com.ctc.wstx.sr.StreamScanner.throwInvalidSpace(StreamScanner.java:675) > at > com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.readTextPrimary(BasicStreamReader.java:4556) > at > com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.nextFromTree(BasicStreamReader.java:2888) > at com.ctc.wstx.sr.BasicStreamReader.next(BasicStreamReader.java:1019) > at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.readDoc(XMLLoader.java:273) > at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.processUpdate(XMLLoader.java:138) > at org.apache.solr.handler.XMLLoader.load(XMLLoader.java:69) > ... 22 more
