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Shawn Heisey commented on SOLR-5228:
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The schema version changes how Solr interprets default settings.  I'm fairly 
sure that it has nothing to do with the XML structure.  I don't think we need a 
new schema version for this.

+1 to Robert's idea in the first comment.  I will restate it below to make sure 
I understand it properly:

 * Allow <field> and <fieldType> at the top level under <schema>.
 * Deprecate <fields> and <types> in 4x.  Remove them in trunk.  The unknown 
tags will fail parsing.
 * Don't worry about supporting all options in the deprecated sections.


> Don't require <field> or <dynamicField> be inside of <fields> -- or that 
> <fieldType> be inside of <types>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-5228
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5228
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Schema and Analysis
>            Reporter: Hoss Man
>            Assignee: Hoss Man
>
> On the solr-user mailing list, Nutan recently mentioned spending days trying 
> to track down a problem that turned out to be because he had attempted to add 
> a {{<dynamicField .. />}} that was outside of the {{<fields>}} block in his 
> schema.xml -- Solr was just silently ignoring it.
> We have made improvements in other areas of config validation by generating 
> statup errors when tags/attributes are found that are not expected -- but in 
> this case i think we should just stop expecting/requiring that the 
> {{<fields>}} and {{<types>}} tags will be used to group these sorts of 
> things.  I think schema.xml parsing should just start ignoring them and only 
> care about finding the {{<field>}}, {{<dynamicField>}}, and {{<fieldType>}} 
> tags wherever they may be.
> If people want to keep using them, fine.  If people want to mix fieldTypes 
> and fields side by side (perhaps specify a fieldType, then list all the 
> fields using it) fine.  I don't see any value in forcing people to use them, 
> but we definitely shouldn't leave things the way they are with otherwise 
> perfectly valid field/type declarations being silently ignored.
> ---
> I'll take this on unless i see any objections.



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