[OPEN-ILS-DEV] [PATCH] remove empty controlfields, datafields, and subfields

[Mike Rylander]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Remove all empty MARC subfield, control fields, and variable data fields when ingesting a bib record, where empty is defined as:
>
> * a control field or subfield that contains nothing or only whitespace
> * a variable data field that has no subfields
>
> Note that while in principle an ISO2709 subfield could contain nothing but whitespace, no known subfield defined in MARC21 or UNIMARC permits that.
>

Improved patch committed.  Thanks again!

--miker

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