: Refactor XMLWriter startTag to allow arbitrary attributes to be written
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: There are certain cases in which a user would like to write arbitrary
: attributes as part of the XML output for a field tag. Case in point: I'd
...i think here may be a disconnect here between some of the goals you are
describing and the purpose of XMLWriter. XMLWriter was originally created
to be a wrapper arround a java.io.Writer that had convinent heper methods
for generating a specific XML response format (ie: wt=xml) back before
Solr even supported multiple output types. The API was never really
designed to be useful for generating XML response data cosisting of
alternate XML structures.
Perhaps instead of making API additions/generalizations to XMLWriter, we
should approach the problem differnelty and think about what a good
reusable general pupose XML generation toolkit that could be used by
custom response writers should look like, and then implement that --
refactoring the existing XMLWriter class to use/extend this new class
where possible?
-Hoss
