#224: BibUpload: update fails if original record is broken
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Reporter: jcaffaro | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: BibUpload | Version:
Keywords: |
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When a record of the database needs to be fixed, but the inserted version
of the record cannot be parsed by BibRecord (typically because it contains
invalid XML chars, possibly inserted by a previous version of BibUpload
that did not check for XML-valid input, or inserted through some
unconventional/deprecated means), it is not possible to replace this
erroneous record by a valid MARCXML with BibUpload (in --replace mode)
The replacement is made impossible by the fact that BibUpload tries to
load the previous record to keep the fields in
{{{CFG_BIBUPLOAD_STRONG_TAGS}}}.
It might be interesting to have a special replacement mode that skips the
original record (and hence CFG_BIBUPLOAD_STRONG_TAGS). Although this might
be useful only to a very limited number of repositories running Invenio,
it might still be good to have it in case BibUpload/BibRecord strengthens
its reqirements in the future, and existing records would need to be
"migrated".
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Ticket URL: <http://invenio-software.org/ticket/224>
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