Re: [VuFind-Tech] File_MARC 0.5.1 release - highlights pertinent to VuFind users

[Demian K. <dem...@vi...>]

This is great news -- thanks for the update (and for obviously paying very close attention to the needs of the VuFind project)!  I can't think of any additional requests at the moment....

- Demian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Scott [mailto:da...@co...]
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 9:40 PM
> To: vuf...@li...
> Subject: [VuFind-Tech] File_MARC 0.5.1 release - highlights pertinent
> to VuFind users
> 
> Hey folks:
> 
> The File_MARC 0.5.1 release from Friday, July 31 has one enhancement
> focused on VuFind users:
> 
>   * methods that return data from File_MARCXML objects cast the data
> to 'string' types explicitly - this should remove the need for the
> WorldCat plugin to cast data on its side
> 
> Also of general interest, the toXML() method has been extended to
> enable the creation of collections of MARCXML records, via a third
> parameter 'single'; if 'single' is false, then call the
> 'toXMLHeader()' method and 'toXMLFooter()' methods to wrap the
> collection of records.
> 
> File_MARC is at http://pear.php.net/package/File_MARC - I'm hoping to
> reach a 1.0 release soon. If there is anything else that VuFind could
> use, let me know. The major piece of missing functionality that I'm
> aware of is a MARC8/UTF8 conversion routine, but given that VuFind
> uses UTF8 exclusively, that shouldn't be a deal-breaker.
> 
> --
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University
> 
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