On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Michael Hafen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 19:31 -0500, Joshua Ferraro wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Michael Hafen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I looked at it briefly for a different field, and found my understanding >> > of XSL lacking. Adding a column to the database was the quick solution >> > for me. >> XSL would also solve the specific problem you have, just turn on those >> two sysprefs and walla ... >> > > Well, it's not actually that straight forward. I still have to learn > how to read and modify an XSLT stylesheet. It is if all you want to solve is 245$b ... that's already in the stylesheet.
Cheers, Josh >> > I guess I can take another look. It might be a good solution. My >> > thinking is that it's good to see data from the two ( potentially >> > different ) copies of the record, what's in the database columns and >> > what's in the marcxml column. I'll have to look again at the XSL to see >> > where it comes from too. >> marcxml has a full MARCXML record blob representing the entire >> bibliographic and item information for that record. XSL has the >> advantage of being able to handle repeatable fields, wheras the >> current database design for Koha can only handle non-repeatable >> fields. >> > > It did occur to me that the database can only handle non-repeatable > fields. Luckily for me 245$b is non-repeatable in the Koha Default > Biblio Template. Still I think it would be possible to handle > repeatable fields, just concatenate the fields together with a > seperator, but the database columns would have to be very large to do it > right. That isn't really a good solution. > > At any rate I will take a look at the XSL files. > > This raises the question of how many others are interested in a patch to > this end. Ryan may want to comment here as he has already stated that > LibLime uses XSLT. Any others want to comment? > >> Josh >> > > -- > Michael Hafen > Systems Analyst and Programmer > Washington County School District > Utah, USA > > for Koha checkout > http://koha-dev.washk12.org > or > git://koha-dev.washk12.org/koha > > -- Joshua Ferraro SUPPORT FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE CEO migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime Featuring Koha Open-Source ILS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
