Shot in the dark: perhaps you have a doc w/o a value in the description field, which means the xsl:variable's select doesn't match anything; which perhaps means that your XSLT engine then leaves the variable undefined.
: Solr 4.7.2 (and 4.6.1) : Tomcat 7.0.52 : Java 1.7.0_45 (and _55) : : I'm getting some really odd behavior with some XSLT documents. I've been : doing some upgrades to Java & Solr and I'm trying to narrow down where the : problems are happening. : : I have a few XSLT docs that I put into the conf/xslt directory for my : indexes I haven't changed the in a while, and they were working fine for a : 3.X Solr, and seemed to work fine on an earlier 4.X release. : : The problem is that sometimes I get an error saying that a field can't be : found. Here's a slice of the XSLT: : <xsl:template match="doc"> : <xsl:variable name="id" select="str[@name='id']"/> : <xsl:variable name="url" select="str[@name='url']"/> : <xsl:variable name="title" select="str[@name='title']"/> : <xsl:variable name="description" select="str[@name='description']"/> : : <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> : <title><xsl:value-of select="str[@name='title']"/></title> : <link> : <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="str[@name='url']" : /></xsl:attribute> : </link> : <summary> : <xsl:choose> : <xsl:when test="string-length($description) > 255"> : <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring($description, 1, 255), : '...')"/> : </xsl:when> : <xsl:otherwise> : <xsl:value-of select="$description"/> : </xsl:otherwise> : </xsl:choose> : </summary> : ..... : </xsl:template> : : I get messages saying that it can't find the "description" variable. : This was working perfectly well, but I can't seem to narrow down a specific : change that caused this. : : Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException: : solrres:/xslt/osatom.xsl: line 115: Variable or parameter 'description' is : undefined. : at : com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerFactoryImpl.newTemplates(TransformerFactoryImpl.java:964) : at : org.apache.solr.util.xslt.TransformerProvider.getTemplates(TransformerProvider.java:110) : : Has anyone run into a problem like this? Thanks! : : -- Chris : -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/