[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Retrieving and parsing MARC records from the Web interface

[Dan Scott]

2008/8/29 Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Alexander O'Neill <aoneill at upei.ca> wrote:
>> What I have right now is that I can, when the page loads, call the
>> FETCH_MARC_HTML (open-ils.search:open-ils.search.biblio.record.html) request
>> method, and in the callback function print the contents of the response
>> object.
>
> You might find it more useful to use bare XHR to grab the marcxml.
> That's (more or less) where we want to go in the future with the OPAC
> in any case.  You can grab the marcxml for any record by constructing
> a url like this:
>
>  http://dev.gapines.org/opac/extras/supercat/retrieve/marcxml/record/1
>
> Replacing 1, of course, with the record id that you need.  Replacing
> marcxml with mods (or any other feed-supporting format) will give you
> other alternate representations.


Just to chime in late - supercat is somewhat documented in the wiki at
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=backend-devel:supercat:examples

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Dan Scott
Laurentian University