You should encode those three characters, and it doesn't hurt to encode the ampersand and double-quote characters too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML#Entity_references
Peter -----Original Message----- From: zqzuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 2:24 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: illegal characters in xml file to be posted? Hi, I am using the SimplePostTool to post files to solr. I have encoutered some problem with the content of xml files. I noticed that if my xml file has fields whose values contain the character "&" or "<" or ">", the post fails and I get the exception : "javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row, col]:[x,y] Message: The entity name must immediately follow the '&' in the entity reference" Looks like these characters are illegal in xml as embedded contents - but I did extract them from xml in the first place. Is there a list of such characters I need to deal with before I pass that to SimplePostTool? Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/illegal-characters-in-xml-file-to-be-posted--tp150 06748p15006748.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
