[Refdb-users] php interface

[Daniel O'D. <dan...@ul...>]

I've been experimenting with the refdb php interface and phpyaz, with an
eye to incorporating them seamlessly into the same interface.

A. 
As far as I can tell--I'm a novice PHPer but experienced XML/XSLT
person, so likely biased--the way to go for importing z3950 put into
refdb is via XML: yaz provides good MARC to MARCXML functionality, and
writing a stylesheet that mimics marc2ris probably wouldn't be to hard
if the target were risx.

The advice on the net seems to be to avoid mixing perl and php; since
xml handling is built into php 5, this seems both a safer and a more
elegant approach.

B. 
As part of my experimentation, I thought I'd also play a bit with the
refdb_php. In particular, I'd like to do two things:

1) xhtml-ize the current html (make it well formed, use CSS instead of
tables for positioning)

2) change the output to either risx or tei xml (more possibilities for
display and exchange)

Any thoughts on either? I know nothing about making packages, so I'll be
doing all this on my local installation as a hobby. I'm not quite sure
how one posts progress or enables collaboration but I'm happy to do so.

-d
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
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Director, Digital Medievalist Project
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