[Medlane-xmlmarc] XMLMARC version 1.9.0 nearing completion (but not there yet).

[Kevin S. C. <ksc...@st...>]

Hi,

I thought I should post since we are getting a few visits to the page (I
would assume from people who have read about XMLMARC in the new "XML in
Libraries" book). Since the chapter was written we have refactored the
XMLMARC code so that it now expects documents validated by a MARCUTL
Relax NG schema (rather than the older MARCUTL DTD).  In the process, we
have also updated the MARC handling library (now called MedMARC).

Unfortunately, in the process, we lost the graphical interface (we
learned that the Swing GUI library is not GPL compliant -- and we want
to be) and much of our documentation now needs to be rewritten.  We are
nearing a release for this new refactored version of XMLMARC (with a
greatly improved MARCUTL schema but minus a lot of documentation) and
expect it to be ready by the weekend.  We also decided to roll back the
version numbering to 1.9.0 to better reflect its developmental status.

Anyway, thanks for your patience and interest in XMLMARC.  We will, of
course, announce here when we put a version of the software up for
download from the new XMLMARC site.

Kevin

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Kevin S. Clarke (ksc...@st...)
Digital Information Systems Developer
Lane Medical Library, Stanford University

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