try this add two xpaths in your forEach
forEach="/document/category/item | /document/category/name" and add a field as follows <field column="catgoryname" xpath ="/document/category/name" commonField="true"/> Please try it out and let me know. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:30 AM, venn hardy <venn.ha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using SOLR 1.4 (from nighly build) and its URLDataSource in conjunction > with the XPathEntityProcessor. I have successfully imported XML content, but > I think I may have found a limitation when it comes to the commonField > attribute in the DataImportHandler. > > > > Before writing my own parser to read in a whole XML document, I thought I'd > post the question here (since I got some great advice last time). > > > > The bulk of my content is contained within each <item> tag. However, each > item has a parent called <category> and each category has a name which I > would like to import. In my forEach loop I specify the > /document/category/item as the collection of items I am interested in. Is > there anyway to extract an element from underneath a parent node? To be a > more more specific (see eg xml below). I would like to index the following: > > - category: Category 1; id: 1; author: Author 1 > > - category: Category 1; id: 2; author: Author 2 > > - category: Category 2; id: 3; author: Author 3 > > - category: Category 2; id: 4; author: Author 4 > > > > Any ideas on how I can get to a parent node from within a child during data > import? If it cant be done, what do you suggest would be the best way so I > can keep using the DataImportHandler... would XSLT be a good idea to 'flatten > out' the structure a bit? > > > > Thanks > > > > This is what my XML document looks like: > > <document> > <category> > <name>Category 1</name> > <item> > <id>1</id> > <author>Author 1</author> > </item> > <item> > <id>2</id> > <author>Author 2</author> > </item> > </category> > <category> > <name>Category 2</name> > <item> > <id>3</id> > <author>Author 3</author> > </item> > <item> > <id>4</id> > <author>Author 4</author> > </item> > </category> > </document> > > > > And this is what my dataConfig looks like: > <dataConfig> > <dataSource type="URLDataSource" /> > <document> > <entity name="archive" pk="id" > url="http://localhost:9080/data/20090817070752.xml"; > processor="XPathEntityProcessor" forEach="/document/category/item" > transformer="DateFormatTransformer" stream="true" dataSource="dataSource"> > <field column="category" xpath="/document/category/name" > commonField="true" /> > <field column="id" xpath="/document/category/item/id" /> > <field column="author" xpath="/document/category/item/author" /> > </entity> > </document> > </dataConfig> > > > > This is how I have specified my schema > <fields> > <field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true" > /> > <field name="author" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/> > <field name="category" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/> > </fields> > > <uniqueKey>id</uniqueKey> > <defaultSearchField>id</defaultSearchField> > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Need a place to rent, buy or share? Let us find your next place for you! > http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/ -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
