Kristian, I think what you want is pattern="<[^>]>" (untested) - that is, you probably don't want to regex-escape the character class brackets "[" and "]", and you should html-escape the angle brackets.
Steve On Mar 1, 2013, at 11:42 AM, "Van Tassell, Kristian" <kristian.vantass...@siemens.com> wrote: > I'm trying to define the pattern: > > <tokenizer class="solr.PatternTokenizerFactory" pattern="<\[^\>\]*>" > group="0"/> > > But getting an error from Solr: > > org.apache.solr.common.SolrException:org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: > Schema Parsing Failed: The value of attribute "pattern" associated with an > element type "null" must not contain the '<' character. > > I'm trying to tokenize a CDATA section I am indexing. I've tried escaping the > < character numerous ways (and used the < entity...) but can't get it to > work. > > Any ideas? Thanks in advance!