Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Ulrich Schaefer
Godmar Back wrote: Hi, Can anybody recommend an open source XML2JSON converter in PhP or Python (or potentially other languages, including XSLT stylesheets)? Ideally, it should implement one of the common JSON conventions, such as Google's JSON convention for GData [1], but anything that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Godmar Back
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ulrich Schaefer ulrich.schae...@dfki.dewrote: Hi, try this: http://code.google.com/p/xml2json-xslt/ I should have mentioned that I already tried everything I could find after googling - this stylesheet doesn't meet the requirements, not by far. It drops

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?

2010-03-05 Thread Scott Garrison
+1 ELM, I'm happy to help coordinate in whatever way you need. Also, if we can find a drummer, we could do a blues trio (count me in on bass). I could bring our band's drummer (a HUGE ND fan) down for a day or two if needed--he's awesome. --SG WMU in Kalamazoo - Original Message -

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?

2010-03-05 Thread Jonathan Brinley
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Scott Garrison scott.garri...@wmich.edu wrote: Also, if we can find a drummer, we could do a blues trio (count me in on bass). If someone can bring drums, I can play them. -- Jonathan M. Brinley jonathanbrin...@gmail.com http://xplus3.net/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin S. Clarke
Internet Archive seems to have a copy of that: http://web.archive.org/web/20071013052842/badgerfish.ning.com/file.php?format=srcpath=lib/BadgerFish.php as well as several versions of the site: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://badgerfish.ning.com Kevin On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:15 AM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Young
On 3/5/10 8:15 AM, Godmar Back wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ulrich Schaeferulrich.schae...@dfki.dewrote: Hi, try this: http://code.google.com/p/xml2json-xslt/ I should have mentioned that I already tried everything I could find after googling - this stylesheet doesn't

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Cary Gordon
You can find it here, although I wouldn't get too excited: http://bit.ly/acROxH You could also fish for more info by badgering its creator at http://www.sklar.com/page/section/contact. Cary On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:59 AM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-05 Thread Cary Gordon
I could say you're a dreamer, but you're not the only one. The reality is that III sees their APIs as gold mines that they can market to a captive audience. For example, their patron API -- a simple web interface to patron records -- probably cost them much less to develop than they get for a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Mark Mounts
have you tried this? http://www.bramstein.com/projects/xsltjson/ http://github.com/bramstein/xsltjson using the parameter |use-rayfish=true seems to preserve everything but namespaces but then there is a parameter to preserve namespaces as well.| Mark On 3/5/2010 12:54 AM, Godmar Back

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?

2010-03-05 Thread LeVan,Ralph
+1 I suspect a few of us from OCLC would attend. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Garrison Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:37 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest? +1

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Godmar Back wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ulrich Schaefer ulrich.schae...@dfki.dewrote: Hi, try this: http://code.google.com/p/xml2json-xslt/ I should have mentioned that I already tried everything I could find after googling - this stylesheet doesn't meet the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?

2010-03-05 Thread Hammons, James W.
Exciting opportunity. I bet we could get several people from the Ball State Library IT shop up to ND for this. Jim + James Hammons, M.L.S. Head of Library Technologies Library Information Technology Services voice:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?

2010-03-05 Thread Ken Irwin
I would come from Ohio to wherever we choose. Kalamazoo would suit me just fine; I've not been back there in entirely too long! Ken -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Garrison Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:37 AM To:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Jay Luker
If PHP/python isn't a hard requirement, I think this would be fairly simple to do in perl using a combination of the XML::Simple [1] and JSON::XS [2] modules. In fact it's so simple, here's the code: #!/usr/bin/perl use JSON::XS; use XML::Simple; use strict; my $filename = shift @ARGV; my

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Dueber
I'm pretty sure I could make it from Ann Arbor! On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: I would come from Ohio to wherever we choose. Kalamazoo would suit me just fine; I've not been back there in entirely too long! Ken -Original Message- From:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-05 Thread Mehrling, Martin
I can't see why III would want to have anything to do with this conference. I think most of us who attend the conference are open-source types, and are trying to do things beyond what we could do with the vendors (who are risk-averse and profit-oriented.) If III wants to be truly innovative,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Benjamin Young Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 09:26 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter If you're looking at putting MARC into JSON, there was some discussion of that during

[CODE4LIB] UBC jobs

2010-03-05 Thread Earles, Jill Denae
Anyone know the status of library systems jobs opening up at UBC? I don't see any posted yet on their site (http://hr.ubc.ca/careers/staff_postings.html), but heard there would be 4 positions open soon. I'll be moving to Vancouver next month, and am looking for work there. Thanks for any

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Dueber
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: Too bad I didn't attend code4lib. OCLC Research has created a version of MARC in JSON and will probably release FAST concepts in MARC binary, MARC-XML and our MARC-JSON format among other formats. I'm wondering

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Dueber Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:30 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: Too bad I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-05 Thread Fleming, Declan
Hiya - San Diego is friggin expensive, and we don't have a small campus feel at all. Robert McDonald and I worked out the costs a few years ago and we'd be almost double what Asheville conf cost folks. It's killing me not to have you all out to paradise in Feb, but I can barely afford to live

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Dueber
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: I decided to stick closer to a MARC-XML type definition since its would be easier to explain how the two specifications are related, rather than take a more radical approach in producing a specification less familiar.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Young
On 3/5/10 1:10 PM, Houghton,Andrew wrote: From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Dueber Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:30 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: I certainly would be will to work with LC on creating a MARC-JSON specification as I did in creating the MARC-XML specification. Quite frankly, I think I (and I imagine others) would much rather see a more open,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Benjamin Young byo...@bigbluehat.com wrote: A CouchDB friend of mine just pointed me to the BibJSON format by the Bibliographic Knowledge Network: http://www.bibkn.org/bibjson/index.html Might be worth looking through for future collaboration/transformation

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Dueber Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 01:59 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: I decided to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Benjamin Young Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 02:06 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter A CouchDB friend of mine just pointed me to the BibJSON format by the Bibliographic

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 02:32 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: I certainly

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Young
On 3/5/10 2:46 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Benjamin Youngbyo...@bigbluehat.com wrote: A CouchDB friend of mine just pointed me to the BibJSON format by the Bibliographic Knowledge Network: http://www.bibkn.org/bibjson/index.html Might be worth looking through

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Dueber
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: As you point out JSON streaming doesn't work with all clients and I am hesitent to build on anything that all clients cannot accept. I think part of the issue here is proper API design. Sending tens of megabytes back

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread LeVan,Ralph
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Dueber I really do understand the desire to make this parallel to marc-xml, but there's a seem between the two technologies that makes that a problematic approach. As a confession, here

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Young
On 3/5/10 3:45 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Houghton,Andrewhough...@oclc.org wrote: As you point out JSON streaming doesn't work with all clients and I am hesitent to build on anything that all clients cannot accept. I think part of the issue here is proper API

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Dueber Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 03:45 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter I guess my concern here is that the specification, as you're describing it, is closing off

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Benjamin Young Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 04:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter For my part, I'd like to explore the options of putting MARC data into CouchDB (which

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Dueber
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: Maybe I have been mislead or misunderstood JSON streaming. This is my central point. I'm actually saying that JSON streaming is painful and rare enough that it should be avoided as a requirement for working with any new

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-05 Thread Meireles, Vanessa
Miami is also very expensive, it's considered top 3 now in the most expensive places to live, plus I must add that Feb is also our high season which means hotel rates and airfares are more than double the usual rates. We also have a poor public transportation system... sorry, unless someone

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-05 Thread Sibyl Schaefer
Anyone interested in Burlington, Vt.? If I had some help (and the deadline extended a couple days) I'd be willing to throw in the hat. Sibyl Schaefer University of Vermont On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Meireles, Vanessa v.meire...@miami.edu wrote: Miami is also very expensive, it's considered

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-05 Thread Edward M. Corrado
Hi Sibyl, I'd love Burlington. It might not be warm but there is a lot of good winter activities. However, It is probably too late for this year to find out what the costs, etc. are, but if you want to put a proposal for 2012, count me in. Edward On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Sibyl Schaefer

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Bill Dueber
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: OK, I will bite, you stated: 1. That large datasets are a problem. 2. That streaming APIs are a pain to deal with. 3. That tool sets have memory constraints. So how do you propose to process large JSON datasets that:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 09:18 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter I actually just wrote the same exact email as Bill (although probably not as polite -- I