Finally got this to work --thank you Upayavira. Turns out the issue was as a result of a syntax error in my stylesheet --I had <xsl:value> instread of <xml-value-of> :(
I didn't notice the xsltproc compilation errors before because it processed the valid styles and printed out the errors at the beginning of output. compilation error: file example-DIH/solr/w5/conf/xslt/x.xsl line 86 element value xsltStylePreCompute: unknown xsl:value compilation error: file example-DIH/solr/w5/conf/xslt/x.xsl line 90 element value xsltStylePreCompute: unknown xsl:value Lighton Phiri http://lightonphiri.org On 18 December 2012 17:01, Lighton Phiri <lighton.ph...@gmail.com> wrote: > I finally understand what you meant and called UpdateRequestHandler as > shown below. > > curl "http://localhost:8983/solr/w5/update?commit=true&tr=x.xsl > > However, I am now getting an error '500 - Unable to initialize > Templates' error. Part of error stack is below. I am not quite > familiar with Solr errors though... turned on debugging but still > can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I know stylesheet is fine > because I can apply it to candidate XML files with xsltproc and it > works. > > Searched mailing list archive and came up with this [1] > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <response> > <lst name="responseHeader"><int name="status">500</int><int > name="QTime">30</int></lst><lst name="error"><str name="msg">Unable to > initialize Templates 'x.xsl'</str><str > name="trace">java.io.IOException: Unable to initialize Templates > 'x.xsl' > at > org.apache.solr.util.xslt.TransformerProvider.getTemplates(TransformerProvider.java:117) > at > org.apache.solr.util.xslt.TransformerProvider.getTransformer(TransformerProvider.java:77) > at org.apache.solr.handler.loader.XMLLoader.getTransformer(XMLLoader.java:180) > at org.apache.solr.handler.loader.XMLLoader.load(XMLLoader.java:116) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.UpdateRequestHandler$1.load(UpdateRequestHandler.java:92) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.ContentStreamHandlerBase.handleRequestBody(ContentStreamHandlerBase.java:74) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:129) > : > : > > [1] http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/getTransformer-error-td3047726.html > Lighton Phiri > http://lightonphiri.org > > > On 18 December 2012 16:27, Lighton Phiri <lighton.ph...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Are you using 4.0? In 4.0 it has been merged into a single >> >> Sorry, forgot to specify Solr version --I am working with 4.0 >> >>>As I understand it, if you post XML tohttp://localhost:8983/solr/update and >>>provide a tr parameter, it will do >>> the same thing as the XsltUpdateRequestHandler did. >> >> Still no luck getting it to work, I am getting the same 404 error... a >> bit more context here; I am working with the example directory set up >> and so basically started my Solr server with command below. Could it >> be that I don't have the stylesheet in the right place? >> >> java -Dsolr.solr.home="./example-DIH/solr/" -jar start.jar >> >> From what I could see before I dumped my stylesheet in w5 core, db >> core had a similar set up... >> >> ./solr/collection1/conf/xslt >> ./example-DIH/solr/db/conf/xslt >> ./example-DIH/solr/w5/conf/xslt >> >> Lighton Phiri >> http://lightonphiri.org