Hi Michele: Yes, I see a UTF-8 encoding error in that file when I try to check it with xmllint (from the libxml2 package):
e...@curry:~/Downloads$ xmllint marc.xml marc.xml:1: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! Bytes: 0xE0 0x20 0x3A 0x3C ld code="b">le infrastrutture, l' organizzazione, i contratti e le responsabilit This causes MARC::Record->new_from_xml to blow up too, with a somewhat unhelpful error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 1533, byte 1533 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187 It looks like your xml file might be in ISO-8859-1 (at least the unix file command told me): e...@curry:~/Projects/marc-xml$ file marc.xml marc.xml: ISO-8859 text, with very long lines, with no line terminators So you could try to convert your XML string with Encode before handing it off to MARC::Record->new_from_xml: use Encode; Encode->from_to($xml, 'iso-8859-1', 'utf-8'); I attached the full script which seems to work OK. Note, if you are on ubuntu it looks like they are a few versions back on their libmarc-xml-perl package (v0.88) instead of the latest on CPAN (v0.92) ... and v0.88 doesn't handle namespaces properly... //Ed
