Thanks for your help, Erik.  I got it working by forming $query with this:

<xsl:variable name="query" select="concat($solr-url,
'select?q=%7B%21raw%20f=', name(), '%7D',
encode-for-uri(normalize-space(.)))"/>

I guess technically I could use url encoded double quotes, but my subject
strings were not encoded, and therefore they will still throwing exceptions.

Ethan

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Erik Hatcher <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Use URL encoding.  %22 is a double-quote url encoded.
>
> However... !
>
> I strongly suggest using, for these "string" type fields where you want
> _exact_ matching, the raw query parser.  Like this:
>
>   q={!raw f=subject}Egypt--Antiquities, Roman
>
> (of course URL encode the above too)
>
> The raw query parser under the covers creates a Lucene TermQuery, for an
> exact match, and you avoid having to do all the query parser escaping
> gymnastics for special parser syntax characters and such.
>
>        Erik
>
>
>
> On Jun 4, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
>
>  Does anyone on the list know off the top of their head if the query
>> parameter (or some other parameter) can be altered in Solr to default to
>> exact matching without double quotes.
>>
>> For example, I would like
>>
>> http://localhost:8080/solr/vocabularies/select?q=subject:Egypt--Antiquities,%20Romanto
>> yield the same results as
>> http://localhost:8080/solr/vocabularies/select?q=subject
>> :"Egypt--Antiquities,
>> Roman"
>>
>> I'm using the document function in XSLT to compare one set of elements
>> with
>> various results from Solr, but Saxon is spitting out a URIResolver:
>> Invalid
>> relative URI error.  I have attributed the error directly to double quotes
>> since the error doesn't trigger when my URL does not contain them.
>>  However,
>> I get no matches without the double quotes since subject is a string
>> field.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ethan
>>
>