XML requests can contain XML illegal characters.

[Manuel Cerón]

Some XML requests made by txSolr may contain XML illegal characters. ElementTree don't prevent them. More information:

http://maxharp3r.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/pythons-minidom-xml-and-illegal-unicode-characters/

[Esteve Fernandez (esteve)]

Another way to fix this is to force JSON as the input format, which supports the whole Unicode character set. It'd also make txSolr symmetric, since the output format is JSON, not XML.

[Manuel Cerón (ceronman)]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Esteve Fernandez
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Another way to fix this is to force JSON as the input format, which
> supports the whole Unicode character set. It'd also make txSolr
> symmetric, since the output format is JSON, not XML.

Yeah, that would be nice. I used XML because at the time I was
implementing txSolr, JSON update wasn't available by default.

[Esteve Fernandez (esteve)]

2011/8/9 Manuel Cerón <email address hidden>:
> Yeah, that would be nice. I used XML because at the time I was
> implementing txSolr, JSON update wasn't available by default.

I'm not sure if the JSON update handler is enabled by default, but it
was added in Solr 1.4.1, so I assume it won't be removed any time
soon. Switching to JSON would make request documents slightly smaller
too.