Re: [patch] Revised MARC::Doc::Tutorial

2003-11-14 Thread Ed Summers
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:25:16PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > Yup, I'm "morbus". Ok, you've been added. Go gently :) The name of the game is that you add a unit test when you add functionality. Good to have you on board! //Ed

Re: Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-14 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:38:59PM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote: > Which brings me to my first question: why > isn't MARC::File::XML installed with it? It requires utf8, and consequently 5.8.0 at least. //Ed

Re: [patch] Revised MARC::Doc::Tutorial

2003-11-14 Thread Morbus Iff
>Wow, great work Morbus. Why don't you become a SourceForge developer and we'll Yup, I'm "morbus". (Did you get my other email on my SF work?) >_gripe() was used at one point but as you can tell it's not anymore. It Yeah, I checked the CHANGES and saw it mentioned back in 2002, seemingly being p

Re: [patch] Revised MARC::Doc::Tutorial

2003-11-14 Thread Ed Summers
Wow, great work Morbus. Why don't you become a SourceForge developer and we'll get you set up with CVS access? But as you are doing already, lets discuss the changes on the list. _gripe() was used at one point but as you can tell it's not anymore. It should be phased out. //Ed

[patch] Revised MARC::Doc::Tutorial

2003-11-14 Thread Morbus Iff
Attached is a gzip'd patch to address a number of corrections to the MARC::Doc::Tutorial documentation. In particular: * numerous grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors fixed (unfinished). * "listserv" was replaced with "mailing list". Listserv is a trademark. * MARC::Lint was added to t

[patch] warn, not croak, on 010 non-tag access.

2003-11-14 Thread Morbus Iff
Problem: When you request an indicator or subfield for tags less than 010, MARC::Field will croak(), causing the script to fail. Discussion: Since MARC tags less than 010 can not have indicators or subfields, not allowing those ::Field methods to be called on those tags make sense. H

Re: Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 09:40 AM, Bryan Baldus wrote: I turned "strict_off", to get through the entire file, but the exported records have had "Invalid indicators forced to blanks." I would like to get these records, and any others that generate errors, and save them (as originally rea

Re: Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 10:38 PM, Morbus Iff wrote: Next up, I've been using the camel.usmarc file as the "file.dat" equivalent in all the examples. When I ran the first example, I got: ActivePerl with ASP and ADO / Tobias Martinsson. ... Cross-platform Perl / Eric F. Johnson. wh

RE: Early Confusion with MARC::Record

2003-11-14 Thread Bryan Baldus
First, an introduction: I am a cataloger/librarian. I have very limited programming experience (2-3 classes--Pascal, C(++?) and database introduction), and am attempting to teach myself Perl with Coriolis' Perl Black Book. I have only made it through parts of the book, enough to understand the bas