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Hi Carsten,
> I think the whole problem lies in the limited expressivity of strings.
> MARCspec is pretty much close to XPath at its approach, but without regular
> expressions and functions like first(), last() etc. But even with XPath it
> would
>
Hi Carsten
Thanks for the new spec I think it is a great initiative to align many projects
that are processing MARC records. Here are some general remarks I hope we can
use to discuss the spec more in depth.
What I'm missing reading the specification is a separate use-case document. In
the spe
Hi Thomas and Patrick!
I think the whole problem lies in the limited expressivity of strings. MARCspec
is pretty much close to XPath at its approach, but without regular expressions
and functions like first(), last() etc. But even with XPath it would be pretty
hard to get the character before a
