Re: MARC::Record, XML, Koha and utf-8 - JIT iso2709

2006-01-12 Thread Enrico Silterra
Paul, I am sure other people have suggested this: My personal inclination is to use the XML as the canonical representation, and make sure that is always present and correct,together with a creation date/time. If iso2709 is needed, then make the translation, and then cache the translation toge

Re: MARC::Record, XML, Koha and utf-8

2006-01-04 Thread Mike Rylander
On 1/4/06, Ed Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would opt for #2. There is a new version of MARC::Charset available > which should ease the marc8 <-> utf8 charset translation. Shortly > there will be a new MARC::File::XML that uses the latest MARC::Charset > > You might be interested in taking

Re: MARC::Record, XML, Koha and utf-8

2006-01-04 Thread Ed Summers
I would opt for #2. There is a new version of MARC::Charset available which should ease the marc8 <-> utf8 charset translation. Shortly there will be a new MARC::File::XML that uses the latest MARC::Charset You might be interested in taking a look at how Evergreen is storing MARC data. I know that