Do you know if your solution will work with older (5.8.0 or 5.6.1) Perl versions? I'm limited (on my development/home machine) to 5.8.0a (MacPerl). I might be able to test MARC::File::XML, but I'm not sure, since I am unable to compile any modules relying upon C (the Mac Programmer's Workshop (MPW) freeware crashes my machine under MacOS 9.2.2, and I haven't figured out yet how to use it in MacOS 9.1 (lack of time) [1]). As a result, I can't use expat-based XML solutions (though I haven't really explored the issue, so I may be wrong). There is a pure Perl parser, I believe, so I'll see if that works. Even so, though, I realize I may be out of luck if the MacOS itself is unable to handle Unicode (I thought 9.x implemented some Unicode handling).
[1] I've checked the MacPerl module porters Web sites, but it doesn't appear any binaries have been compiled since 5.6.1. Thank you for your assistance, Bryan Baldus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.inwave.com/eija
