Escape xml in delete() using ElementTree #358
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A different approach to [#356] using ElementTree as suggested in a comment.
The pysolr .delete() method was not escaping special characters like <, >, and & in the XML it was generating. See issue [#357].
In particular attempts to delete documents by IDs like this:
would give error messages, and attempts to delete documents like this:
could delete more than you would have expected. This pull request (with test cases) escapes the IDs and Lucene Query Expressions in the XML generation step.