On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:58:25AM +, Ben Soares wrote:
> Just yesterday I was attempting to process a MARC file from the National
> Library of Scotland (I *think* they use UKMARC, which is sufficiently
> close to MARC21 that I don't need to know :). The processing stopped
> on record 9190
Just yesterday I was attempting to process a MARC file from the National
Library of Scotland (I *think* they use UKMARC, which is sufficiently
close to MARC21 that I don't need to know :). The processing stopped
on record 9190 (of 113296) because of an alpha indicator (admittedly it
was an "o"
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:57:52AM -0600, Anne Highsmith wrote:
> Yup, looks like it. This is a new one on me, who haven't really studied
> MARC since I escaped from MARBI in 1992. Maybe this is a USMARC->MARC 21
> change, i.e. something that came in with MARC 21? Or was it a change in
> the ANSI o
>Yup, looks like it. This is a new one on me, who haven't really studied
>MARC since I escaped from MARBI in 1992. Maybe this is a USMARC->MARC 21
>change, i.e. something that came in with MARC 21? Or was it a change in
>the ANSI or ISO standards? I don't think lowercase alphabetics were
>valid ind
Yup, looks like it. This is a new one on me, who haven't really studied
MARC since I escaped from MARBI in 1992. Maybe this is a USMARC->MARC 21
change, i.e. something that came in with MARC 21? Or was it a change in
the ANSI or ISO standards? I don't think lowercase alphabetics were
valid indicato
> Perhaps, but we've yet to have anyone complain :)
That's pretty much the strategy we've had on features in MARC::Record,
and my strategy for any module: If someone needs it, I'll put it in. If
they don't, I won't.
xoa
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This sounds more like a specification than a feature and so should probably
be added?
Ben
On Wed, 19 November, 2003 15:14, Ed Summers wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:43:51AM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote:
> > if ( $indicator !~ /^[0-9 ]$/ ) {
>
> Perhaps, but we've yet to have anyone complain :)
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:43:51AM -0500, Morbus Iff wrote:
> if ( $indicator !~ /^[0-9 ]$/ ) {
Perhaps, but we've yet to have anyone complain :) I guess it would
be ok to loosen this behavior if you have a pressing need for it. But I would
steer away from adding features just for the sake of add
