2008/10/29 Bill Erickson <billserick...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > I ran across some gnarly MARC data today, which contained, among other > things, MARC codes of "<". I realized that Marc::File::XML outputs the MARC > tags, codes, and indicators without escaping them. This results, in my > case, in invalid XML like: > > <subfield code="<">France</subfield> > > It seems reasonable that, regardless of the (horrible) content of the MARC, > marc::file::xml should produce valid XML. > > Attached is a patch to explicitly escape the values before inserting them > into the XML document under construction. I'm not sure if it's the best > approach, but it got me up and running again. > > Thanks,
Is anyone planning on applying this patch? It would be a shame to drop it on the floor. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
