Re: Handling disparate data sources in Solr

2006-12-24 Thread Walter Underwood
On 12/23/06 5:28 AM, "Alan Burlison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You could do it in Solr. The difficulty is that arbitrary binary data >> is not easily transferred via xml. So you must specify that the input >> is in base64 or some other encoding. Then you could decode it on the >> fly using

Re: Handling disparate data sources in Solr

2006-12-24 Thread Alan Burlison
Chris Hostetter wrote: : Why won't cdata work? because your binary data might the byte sequence: 0x5D 0x5D 0x3E -- indicating hte end of the CDATA section. CDATA is short for "Charatacter DATA" -- you can't put arbitrary binary data in (or even arbitrary text in it) and be sure thta it will wor