Re: [Koha-devel] SVC templates

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Walls
...and the other places with XMLout are patron and item card creation, and the Syndetics external service. Dealing with those places another way would reduce our dependency on XML::Simple by about half. -Ian On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 13:15, Ian Walls wrote: > C4/ILSDI/Services.pm also uses XML::

Re: [Koha-devel] SVC templates

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Walls
C4/ILSDI/Services.pm also uses XML::Simple to do output. Strings are actually composed in the subroutines, making any changes to the schema a C4-editing patch. Having an ILSDI template directory would serve us much better here, I think. -Ian 2012/4/11 Robin Sheat > Op 11-04-12 23:31, Ian Wal

Re: [Koha-devel] MARC::Record, record length and leader

2012-04-11 Thread Colin Campbell
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:34:07PM +1200, Robin Sheat wrote: > Op 11-04-12 23:12, Ian Walls schreef: > > It's not really for that, it's to allow seeking through records on tape > to be efficient (at least, the way it's designed suggests that to me.) I'm old enough to confirm thats the purpose alth

Re: [Koha-devel] MARC::Record, record length and leader

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Nighswonger
2012/4/11 Robin Sheat > Op 11-04-12 23:12, Ian Walls schreef: > > > I'd say just stop counting at 9, and let the export scripts provide > > the recalculation, truncation or warning. Since we don't include items > > internally in our MARC except for indexing, we shouldn't run into this > > si

Re: [Koha-devel] Authority record import/export

2012-04-11 Thread Partha Mukhopadhyay
Dear MJR First of all I would like to say sorry for not sending the previous mail through a new thread. I'll remember this for future submissions. Thanks for your kind sharing of knowledge. It's really surprising for me that this important features are not finding suitable support from libraries. I

Re: [Koha-devel] SVC templates

2012-04-11 Thread Robin Sheat
Op 11-04-12 23:31, Ian Walls schreef: > Right now, the few web services we have all create their XML output > using XML::Simple. This is not the fastest parser in the world, so I've > been looking to minimize/remove it's usage. I work with the maintainer of XML::Simple. I'm quite sure he wouldn't

Re: [Koha-devel] MARC::Record, record length and leader

2012-04-11 Thread Robin Sheat
Op 11-04-12 23:12, Ian Walls schreef: > Is the record length portion of the leader really useful to anyone > anymore? It's really a much more valuable concept 30 years ago, when > storage in bytes was a real consideration. It's not really for that, it's to allow seeking through records on tape to

[Koha-devel] SVC templates

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Walls
Right now, the few web services we have all create their XML output using XML::Simple. This is not the fastest parser in the world, so I've been looking to minimize/remove it's usage. Looking at it in /svc got me thinking: perhaps we should be using T:T to generate our web services output instea

Re: [Koha-devel] Authority record import/export

2012-04-11 Thread Bob Birchall
On 11/04/12 19:43, MJ Ray wrote: Partha Mukhopadhyay Koha does not include (upto version 3.6.4) the provision of MARC 21 authority management from GUI interfaces. For example 1) to import a MARC formatted authority file (like bibliographic records), 2) to export authority records from local reco

Re: [Koha-devel] MARC::Record, record length and leader

2012-04-11 Thread Ian Walls
Is the record length portion of the leader really useful to anyone anymore? It's really a much more valuable concept 30 years ago, when storage in bytes was a real consideration. I'd say just stop counting at 9, and let the export scripts provide the recalculation, truncation or warning. Sin

Re: [Koha-devel] Authority record import/export

2012-04-11 Thread MJ Ray
Partha Mukhopadhyay > Koha does not include (upto version 3.6.4) the provision of MARC 21 > authority management from GUI interfaces. For example 1) to import a > MARC formatted authority file (like bibliographic records), 2) to > export authority records from local records through GUI > etc. Pres

[Koha-devel] Authority record import/export

2012-04-11 Thread Partha Mukhopadhyay
Dear Friends   Koha does not include (upto version 3.6.4) the provision of MARC 21 authority management from GUI interfaces. For example 1) to import a MARC formatted authority file (like bibliographic records), 2) to export authority records from local records through GUI etc. Presently it provide

Re: [Koha-devel] MARC::Record, record length and leader

2012-04-11 Thread Fridolyn SOMERS
Hie, That's right, Koha uses both marc and marcxml for data storage. It costs performance on insert and update. Can we imagine dropping marc field form database and serialize on demande ? -- Fridolyn SOMERS fridolyn.som...@gmail.com Marsillargues - France 2012/4/10 Ian Walls > I'd advocate I

Re: [Koha-devel] MARC::Record, record length and leader

2012-04-11 Thread Julian Maurice
Le 10/04/2012 17:15, Ian Walls a écrit : I'd advocate ISO-2709 only being an import/export format, and never using it internally. It's just got too many limitations, as we're seeing here. On import, we check for valid leaders, and warn if not. On export, we calculate the leader, and if it exce