AW: [librecat-dev] A common MARC record path language

2014-02-19 Thread Klee, Carsten
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

RE: [librecat-dev] A common MARC record path language

2014-02-19 Thread Patrick Hochstenbach
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