Tag Archives: solr

Book review: Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

I was recently offered a review copy of Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server (thanks to Swati Iyer). Whilst this is most fortuitous, I only wish I’d had this a month or two ago, when I was working fairly heavily on … Continue reading →

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Search & Replace in XSLT 2

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

For a project at $WORK, we want to implement Solr’s spelling suggestions. When you ask solr to provide suggestions, it comes back with something like this (the original search was spinish englosh): <response> … <lst name="spellcheck"> <lst name="suggestions"> <lst name="spinish"> … Continue reading →

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Solr's Lucene Source

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Dominic Mitchell

I’m debugging a plugin for Solr. I’ve just about got the magic voodoo set up so that I can make Eclipse talk to tomcat and stick breakpoints in and so on. But I’ve immediately run into a problem. Even though … Continue reading →

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Character Encodings Bite Again

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Dominic Mitchell

A colleague gave me a nudge today. “This page doesn’t validate because of an encoding error”. It was fairly simple: the string “Jiménez” contained a single byte—Latin1. Ooops. It turned out that we were generating the page as ISO-8859-1 instead … Continue reading →

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