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7.4 Building catalog indexes from XML files
Solr V1.3 provides an interface to build indexes from XML files. The challenge is how to
resolve the WebSphere Commerce V7.0 metadata information. WebSphere Commerce
depends on the metadata in the index, for example, store_id, catalog_id, and productset_id,
to filter out the entitled products based on the user’s business context. This metadata is the
internal ID of the objects. Most metadata is generated by the WebSphere Commerce key
manager function. So, if the XML is built from a non-WebSphere Commerce authoring
system, it can be challenging to resolve the ...