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

[Alexander O'Neill]

Just wanted to post a followup to say that this worked great and was  
exactly what I needed after applying a little XSLT magic to the  
request response.  We are now able to pretty easily customize which  
fields appear in the bib record.

We are planning to share our code after it gets cleaned up a bit and  
hopefully made more generic.

Thanks again,

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Alexander O'Neill
Programmer / Analyst
Robertson Library
University of Prince Edward Island



On 29-Aug-08, at 10:28 PM, Dan Scott wrote:

> 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
>
> -- 
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University