How are you indexing documents? You need to either URL encode things or XML encode, sounds like.
Erik On Aug 12, 2013, at 14:49, John Randall <jmr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I am using an HTTP GET to add docs to Solr. All the docs load fine as long as > none contain an ampersand. I get a syntax error when a doc contains a field, > for example, with the phrase "Jack & Jill". > > How can I escape the ampersand so that the doc loads normally? > > Thanks in advance.