MARC::XML 0.4

MARC::XML is a subclass of MARC.pm to provide XML support.

SYNOPSIS

use MARC::XML;

#read in some MARC and output some XML
$myobject = MARC::XML->new("marc.mrc","usmarc");
$myobject->output({file=>">marc.xml",format=>"xml"});

#read in some XML and output some MARC
$myobject = MARC::XML->new("marc.xml","xml");
$myobject->output({file=>">marc.mrc","usmarc");

MARC::XML is a subclass of MARC.pm which provides methods for round-trip conversions between MARC and XML. MARC::XML requires that you have the CPAN modules MARC.pm and XML::Parser installed in your Perl library. Version 1.04 of MARC.pm and 2.27 of XML::Parser (or later) are required. As a subclass of MARC.pm a MARC::XML object will by default have the full functionality of a MARC.pm object. See the MARC.pm documentation for details.

The XML file that is read and generated by MARC::XML is not associated with a Document Type Definition (DTD). This means that your files need to be well-formed, but they will not be validated. When performing XML->MARC conversion it is important that the XML file is structured in a particular way. Fortunately, this is the same format that is generated by the MARC->XML conversion, so you should be able to be able to move your data easily between the two formats.