Re: XML Parsing for large XML documents

2004-02-25 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Rob: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 03:31:07PM -0500, Robert Fox wrote: > 1. Am I using the best XML processing module that I can for this sort of > task? XPath expressions require building a document object model (DOM) of your XML file. Building a DOM for a huge file is extremely expensive since i

XML Parsing for large XML documents

2004-02-25 Thread Robert Fox
I'm cross posting this question to perl4lib and xml4lib, hoping that someone will have a suggestion. I've created a very large (~54MB) XML document in RDF format for the purpose of importing related records into a database. Not only does the RDF document contain many thousands of individual rec

Re: unsubsribe

2004-02-25 Thread Ed Summers
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RE: Using as_string() in Marc::batch

2004-02-25 Thread Sperr, Edwin
>I'm using as_string() in Marc::Batch to get 650 fields and mash all the subfields together so I can push them into a database. >Works great, but what I'd really like to do is have fields such as: >"Health Services Canada." >appear as >"Health Services -- Canada." For the time being, I've dec

RE: unsubsribe

2004-02-25 Thread Bryan Baldus
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Re: Using as_string() in Marc::batch

2004-02-25 Thread Andy Lester
> as_string() could check if MARC::Descriptions is available, and if so add any > available punctuation. If not, just do it the current way? > > I'm willing to tweak up MARC::Descriptions if someone can point me to a > "proper punctuation" guide. Then MARC::Record will be relying on MARC::

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2004-02-25 Thread Holly Bravender
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Re: Using as_string() in Marc::batch

2004-02-25 Thread David Christensen
That might be something that could go into MARC::Descriptions another hash element to indicate punctuation. Then MARC::Field wouldn't have to worry about it :-) as_string() could check if MARC::Descriptions is available, and if so add any available punctuation. If not, just do it the cu

Re: Using as_string() in Marc::batch

2004-02-25 Thread Andy Lester
> I'm using as_string() in Marc::Batch to get 650 fields and mash all the > subfields together so I can push them into a database. Works great, but > what I'd really like to do is have fields such as: > > "Health Services Canada." > > appear as > > "Health Services -- Canada." Well, it's MARC:

RE: Using as_string() in Marc::batch

2004-02-25 Thread Holly Bravender
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Using as_string() in Marc::batch

2004-02-25 Thread Sperr, Edwin
I'm using as_string() in Marc::Batch to get 650 fields and mash all the subfields together so I can push them into a database. Works great, but what I'd really like to do is have fields such as: "Health Services Canada." appear as "Health Services -- Canada." Basically, I need some dashes to a