MARC::File::XML 0.88

2007-11-29 Thread Joshua Ferraro
test failure(miker) - Removed some useless (and confusing) code that throws away some character set mapping information in the 066 (miker) Hopefully, this version will fix the install probs that some have had with 0.87 ... if not, let us know. Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro

Re: More Fun With MARC::File::XML: Solutions

2006-05-28 Thread Joshua Ferraro
ation on which are compatible... Maybe a note somewhere in the MARC::File::XML documentation to point these issues out would be useful. Also, it wouldn't be too bad to have a few tests to make sure that the system's default SAX parser is capable of handling these cases. Just my two cen

More Fun With MARC::File::XML

2006-05-23 Thread Joshua Ferraro
n problem or some other problem with the source record that I just haven't been able to spot ... any suggestions? Thanks, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime

Re: Possible bug in XML::SAX causing new_from_xml() to croak

2006-05-20 Thread Joshua Ferraro
Hi all, Right ... I was using the PurePerl parser. As soon as I installed XML::SAX::Expat the combining characters problem went away. Thanks! -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLime

Possible bug in XML::SAX causing new_from_xml() to croak

2006-05-19 Thread Joshua Ferraro
reproduces the same error we're getting in the new_from_xml() method. Try it out and see what it does for you. So ... Is there a workaround that we can use to fix the MARC::Record suite so that it won't crash when dealing with records that have combining characters ... shall I bug the ma

Re: MARC Records, XML, and encoding

2006-05-19 Thread Joshua Ferraro
ey've got: true E2 0301 CC81 ACUTE / COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT (Oxia) So is the utf-8 mapping above wrong? or is the MARC::Record suite handling combining characters correctly? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURC

Re: MARC Records, XML, and encoding

2006-05-19 Thread Joshua Ferraro
what about ideas for handling these records 'in the wild' that have some encoding problems... what do other MARC libraries do? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance,

Re: MARC Records, XML, and encoding

2006-05-18 Thread Joshua Ferraro
SF to update so I can nab that test script. In the meantime, any ideas how to track this one down? Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLimeFeaturing Ko

Re: MARC Records, XML, and encoding

2006-05-18 Thread Joshua Ferraro
e and running marcdump again? Thanks, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLimeFeaturing Koha Open-Source ILS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Full Demos at http://liblim

Re: Code For Web Based MARC Creation

2006-03-01 Thread Joshua Ferraro
#x27;s import routines. I should mention that the current version doesn't support repeatable subfields and subfield reordering, though the backend-framework does. Those features will be in 2.2.6 however, which should be out in about a month (the 2.2.6 MARC editor will also probably sup

Re: [Zebralist] MARC and utf-8 question

2006-02-14 Thread Joshua Ferraro
will just 'go away'. (you can test this by unpacking the sourceforge version to a local dir, and adding a 'use lib' line pointing to it before you overwrite the CPAN stuff in your perl4lib) Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTW

Re: MARC::Record and Unicode?

2006-01-31 Thread Joshua Ferraro
t. [1] http://openils.org [2] http://indexdata.dk/simpleserver Cheers, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, support LibLimeFeaturing Koha Open-Source ILS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Full

MARC::Record and Unicode?

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua Ferraro
Hi there, I've heard there is a unicode-friendly version of MARC::Record, just wondering whether it can be found in SourceForge or CPAN. Thanks, -- Joshua Ferraro VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE President, Technology migration, training, maintenance, su

MARC separators stripped out(encoding prob?)

2003-09-28 Thread Joshua Ferraro
ideas...any suggestions? I've attached sample records in both formats (with and without separators) as well as my fetch_handler code and Koha's MARCgetbiblio subroutine. Thanks, Joshua Ferraro Nelsonville Public Library Record with separators: 00786 00265 00100070003

Re: MARC::Record Problems

2003-09-25 Thread Joshua Ferraro
Ed et al, Thanks for responding so quickly. > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 07:54:29AM -0400, Joshua Ferraro wrote: > > Does anyone know how to add separators/terminators when building a single > > MARC record? > > Joshua, MARC::Record does this for you. Where is the code you use

MARC::Record Problems

2003-09-25 Thread Joshua Ferraro
Hi everyone, Thanks for all the help so far. I contacted our statewide resource sharing rep and she sent me the following which may explain why the MARC records are not working for them: >I searched your Zserver through YAZ (another Z >searching program) and could not see the MARC record. >The s

Re: MARC::Record leader

2003-09-20 Thread Joshua Ferraro
Paul and folks, MARCgetbiblio is the sub in Biblio.pm that contains the SQL queries that are supposed to generate a MARC record. I use it thusly: my $MARCRecord = &MARCgetbiblio($dbh,$bibid); my $recordstring=$MARCRecord->as_usmarc(); When I use

Re: MARC::Record leader

2003-09-10 Thread Joshua Ferraro
On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 02:05:24PM -0500, Ed Summers wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:57:31PM -0400, Joshua Ferraro wrote: > > sub fetch_handler { > > my ($args) = @_; > > # warn "in fetch_handler"; ## troubleshooting > >

MARC::Record leader

2003-09-10 Thread Joshua Ferraro
and I don't know how to determine on-the-fly what the leader length and base address are (also I'm not sure how to use the set_leader_lengths "access method"). My code is below...any suggestions? Thanks, Joshua Ferraro Nelsonville Public Library Here is my code(this sub should bui