Upon further poking on the LoC website, I think I have answered my own question.
This mrc2xml.pl program apparently converts marc records to an xml format that "... differs from the MARCXML schema by specifying each MARC data element as an XML element." http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcxml.html So yes, it converts to XML, but it doesn't convert to the current MARCXML standard. This seems to be of limited utility, since it appears that most of LC's and other folks' development work (stylesheets, etc.) is based on the MARCXML schema. Opinions? Anne L. Highsmith Consortia Systems Coordinator 5000 TAMU Evans Library Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-5000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 979-862-4234 979-845-6238 (fax) >>> "Anne Highsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/09/04 10:04AM >>> Our sysadmin just got mrc2xml.pl installed for me and I'm trying to work with it. Have a coupla questions, if anyone can help. First, I thought, upon reading the documentation, that it would product xml output of bib records according to the current Library of Congress standard. But I don't think it does; when I match up the basic data element names from the mrc2xml.pl output with an LoC stylesheet, such as the MARC21toMODS stylesheet, nothing matches. The root element is different, the way fields are handled and indicators are identified, etc., don't match at all. Is there some other description file I should be using with mrc2xml.pl to produce standard output? Or perhaps I should say LoC standard output. Second (may be moot now because of 1, but I'll need it eventually) I thought I could just pop a reference to the http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/MARC21slim2MODS3.xsl stylesheet into the xml and have the xml source file display in MODS. But when I tried to add a reference to it, thus: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/MARC21slim2MODS3.xsl";?> I get: Access is denied. Error processing resource 'http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/MARC21slim2MODS3.xsl'. Anne L. Highsmith Consortia Systems Coordinator 5000 TAMU Evans Library Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-5000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 979-862-4234 979-845-6238 (fax)
