: Sure, but my point was, I am still able to call xmlWriter.writePrim which : lets me write XML tags with unbound names in an arbitrary fashion. In other : words, I can make my field (for XML) instead of spitting out:
Oh man ... WTF is writePrim doing marked "public" ?!?!?!?! ...this is why classes shouldn't be made public without a thorough vetting. I see your point now abotu FieldTypes having an awkward amount of control over the XML generateion ... all i can say is they arent' suppose to have *any* control, it's suppose to be a field type nuetral format that only allows the FieldTypes to render themselves as one of the "returnable object" types defined as being permited in the SolrQueryResponse... http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/request/SolrQueryResponse.html -Hoss
