#251: BibFormat: problems with format_record() and live incomplete MARCXML
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Reporter: simko | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Milestone: v1.0
Component: BibFormat | Version:
Keywords: |
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There are some problems when using `format_record()` on MARCXML
snippets that do not have all expected fields and/or real record
ID (tag 001).
1) A small problem is that recID cannot really be `None` if MARCXML is
passed, since it leads to tracebacks in statements like:
{{{
register_exception(prefix="An error occured while formatting record %i in
%s" % \
(recID, of),
alert_admin=True)
}}}
We can live with this by passing fake recID, but we should probably
document it
in the docstring.
2) The real problem is that some output formats such as EndNote and
RefWorks seem to assume presence of many fields, which is not the case
for e.g. external items in baskets, that have only a handful of fields
defined, and do not even have `001`.
A simple test case that fails:
{{{
z = """<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<record>
<controlfield tag="001">1234</controlfield>
<datafield tag="100" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
<subfield code="a">Doe, J</subfield>
</datafield>
<datafield tag="245" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
<subfield code="a">On the foo and bar</subfield>
</datafield>
</record>"""
from invenio.bibformat import format_record
format_record(1234, 'xe', xml_record=z, on_the_fly=True)
}}}
A test value that works:
{{{
z = format_record(1,'xm')
}}}
but eliminate `001` from the snippet and it will stop working:
{{{
z = z.replace('<controlfield tag="001">1</controlfield>\n ','')
}}}
The typical error is:
{{{
In [19]: format_record(1234, 'xe', xml_record=z, on_the_fly=True)
Entity: line 2: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
^
Out[19]: '<abbr class="unapi-id" title="1234"></abbr>\n'
}}}
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