If anyone is interested, I managed to resolve this a long time ago. I used a Data Import Handler instead and it worked beautifully. DIH are very forgiving and it takes what ever XML data is there and injects it into the Solr Index. It's a lot faster than crawling too. You use XPATH to map the fields to your schema.
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