2008/4/28 Nella Lall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dan and anyone else who might know, > > I was doing the import_demo you have posted and got through steps 5 without > error. I was using my own sample of 1000 MARC21XML/UTF-8 (or so I thought) > records instead of your provided sample of 500 records. When I got to step > 6 I received this error: > > :61: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate encoding ! > Bytes: 0xE6 0x69 0x3C 0x2F > ..... > > > Anyway, I realized that somewhere in my attempt to go from our Unicorn > Marc21/Marc8 format records to the required MARC21XML/UTF8 records (via > MarcEdit), things did not go 100% correctly. > > So, my question is: > > -can I begin the import_demo steps back at step one with your provided 500 > record sample (or any other record sample for that matter) without having to > do any cleanup of tables for the failed/partial load of my 1000 records?
Hi Nella: Sorry for the delay in responding, but I have some good news... Step 6 is running parse_holdings.pl, which just generates a SQL file of INSERT statements (insert_holdings.sql). You don't actually run that file until step 8, so you can fix up your MARC records and run step 6 as many times as you like without having to clean up any tables. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
