On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Reese, Terry
wrote:
> I wouldn't. One of the benefits of marcxml is that you are not
> constrained by marcs record length issues. Deciding to calculate that
> value would add an arbitrary length limitation to the format (in my
> opinion).
>
Not to mention that t
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Sullivan, Mark V wrote:
> I received a question regarding a software library I have created and
> released as open source. The record length in the leader ( positions 0-4 )
> was not being calculated correctly when writing as MarcXML. However, this
> raises a mor
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If im writing marcxml from scratch, I agree. If I'm converting it from marc, i
print out the length value from the record more for histo
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When writing MARC XML, you should use zeros. The foll
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When writing MARC XML, you should use zeros. The following document
[1] says you can use blanks, but the schema [2] uses a pattern that
indicates digits should be used. When reading MARC XML, you should
just ignore whatever is in those positions.
[1] http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/marcxml-de
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From: Sullivan, Mark V
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All,
I received a question regarding a software library I have created and released
as open source. The record length in the leader ( positions 0-4 ) was not
being calculated correctly when writing as MarcXML. However, this raises a
more philosophical and larger question. What is the point
