[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Cannot save authority record with a 155 field

Linda Jansova skolkova at chello.cz
Thu Nov 8 00:20:57 EST 2018


Hi,

a little update - Nate Trail from the LC has promised to fix it:

https://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=MODS;692400d8.1811

:-)

Linda

On 11/7/18 11:11 AM, Linda Jansova wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We have updated the XSLT (with swapped lines 1084 and 1085 as Josh 
> suggested) using the following command: 
> http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=blob;f=Open-ILS/src/sql/Pg/955.data.MADS21-xsl.sql. 
> Then we performed all steps that the upgrade from 2.12.6 to 3.1.4 
> requires. Everything (including the reingest) has been completed 
> successfully :-).
>
> On Monday November 5th, I sent a message to MODS (MADS) mailing list 
> regarding the troublesome lines in the XSLT file:
>
> https://listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A2=MODS;fd3eba0f.1811
>
> There is no response yet but I do hope that someone from the LC will 
> eventually respond.
>
> Linda
>
> On 11/1/18 7:29 AM, Linda Jansova wrote:
>> Thank you, Josh!
>>
>> We shall try and go through the reingest of all records and if no 
>> other XSLT-related issues appear, I can get in touch with MADS folks 
>> through their listserv and report the error.
>>
>> Linda
>>
>> On 10/31/18 4:59 PM, Josh Stompro wrote:
>>> Hello Mike, I've created a bug for this issue to get it in the 
>>> queue.  LP#1800871
>>>
>>> Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Open-ils-general 
>>> <open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org> On Behalf Of 
>>> Mike Rylander
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 10:09 AM
>>> To: Evergreen Development Discussion List 
>>> <open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
>>> Cc: Evergreen Discussion Group 
>>> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Cannot save authority 
>>> record with a 155 field
>>>
>>> Hi Linda and Josh,
>>>
>>> Great work figuring that out! We should definitely report this 
>>> upstream to the MODS/MADS folks, but we maintain a local copy of the 
>>> XSLT (altered to work without external file or network access for xml
>>> includes) and can fix it locally.  I don't have time right now to 
>>> jump on it, but both the file on the filesystem and the version in 
>>> the config.xml_transform table in the db should be corrected.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -- 
>>> Mike Rylander
>>>   | Executive Director
>>>   | Equinox Open Library Initiative
>>>   | phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>>>   | email:  miker at equinoxinitiative.org
>>>   | web:  http://equinoxinitiative.org
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:58 AM Josh Stompro 
>>> <stomproj at exchange.larl.org> wrote:
>>>> Linda, I wonder if this is a bug in the MARCslim2MADS.xslt?  The error
>>>> message is
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> runtime error: file ./MARC21slim2MADS.xsl line 1404 element attribute
>>>>
>>>> xsl:attribute: Cannot add attributes to an element if children have 
>>>> been already added to the element.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I agree that it looks like the problem is when the xslt is 
>>>> processing the 755 and trying to set the authority source.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think the bug may be that when processing the 755 tag on line 
>>>> 1081, the genre template is called before the setAuthority 
>>>> template.  The Genre template adds child elements, then the 
>>>> setAuthority tries to set attributes, which is where the error pops 
>>>> up.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If I swap lines 1084 and 1085 then the error goes away and both the 
>>>> genre(155) and related genre(755) show up in the transformed xml.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think the way to report this to the MADS project is via the MODS
>>>> listserv, as listed on http://www.loc.gov/standards/mads/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don’t have enough experience with these technologies to be all 
>>>> that confident that this is the issue though.  I would be happy to 
>>>> report this to the MODS listserv if it seems to make sense to 
>>>> someone that is more familiar with mods/mads/xml/authorities.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Linda Jansova <skolkova at chello.cz>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 7:16 AM
>>>> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
>>>> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>; Josh Stompro
>>>> <stomproj at exchange.larl.org>; Evergreen Development Discussion List
>>>> <open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cannot save authority record with a
>>>> 155 field
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear Josh,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for letting me know about the right XSL file!
>>>>
>>>> After some more investigations I have come to a conclusion that it 
>>>> is not actually a 155 field which causes the problem but a 755 
>>>> field. If it has any value in second indicator, xsltproc fails to 
>>>> process it. When the indicator does not have any value (or, to be 
>>>> more precise, there is just a space), it is okay.
>>>>
>>>> So far, it seems that we will have to get rid either of the values 
>>>> of indicators in 755s, or of the following part of the XSL file:
>>>>
>>>> <xsl:when
>>>>                  test="(700 <= 
>>>> ancestor-or-self::marc:datafield/@tag and 
>>>> ancestor-or-self::marc:datafield/@tag <= 755 ) and @ind2='7'">
>>>>                  <xsl:attribute name="authority">
>>>>                      <xsl:value-of select="marc:subfield[@code='2']"/>
>>>>                  </xsl:attribute>
>>>>              </xsl:when>
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully it will work for us and let us proceed in the upgrade :-)!
>>>>
>>>> Linda
>>>>
>>>> On 10/30/18 9:38 PM, Josh Stompro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Linda, I think the Authority ingest uses the 
>>>> MARC21slim2MADS.xsl transform file to convert the authority data 
>>>> into MADS format.  Could you try manually processing your problem 
>>>> authority record using the MADS file instead of the MODS and see 
>>>> what you get.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The MADS xsl does look like it references tag 155.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: Open-ils-general
>>>> <open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org> On Behalf Of
>>>> Linda Jansova
>>>> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 5:29 AM
>>>> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
>>>> <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>; Evergreen Development
>>>> Discussion List <open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org>
>>>> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Cannot save authority record with a 155
>>>> field
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> back in August we started investigating why we couldn't proceed 
>>>> with upgrade from 2.12.6 to 3.1.4 (for more details please see 
>>>> http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/2018-August/015298.html).
>>>>
>>>> After removing obviously invalid MARCXML records (which 
>>>> surprisingly made their way to our 2.12 installation) we still have 
>>>> some records which cannot be reingested (or saved).
>>>>
>>>> Attached is a sample record americke_romany.xml which is one of 
>>>> those troublesome ones. It is a genre/form term record with the 
>>>> main heading in the field 155.
>>>>
>>>> We have tried the SQL upgrade from 2.12.6 to 3.0.0 without 
>>>> authority records reingest (the particular lines were commented 
>>>> out) and, once we were at 3.1.4, used the web client to save this 
>>>> particular record (without actually making any changes in it). 
>>>> However, it appeared that it could not be saved:
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> open-ils.pcrud 2018-10-26 09:33:37 [ERR
>>>> :49144:oils_sql.c:6570:15405352984867814] open-ils.pcrud ERROR
>>>> updating authority::record_entry object with id = 356: 56966976
>>>> 56966976: ERROR: runtime error: file unknown-55cee6a934f0 element
>>>> attribute
>>>>
>>>> xsl:attribute: Cannot add attributes to an element if children have 
>>>> been already added to the element.
>>>>
>>>> at line 31.
>>>>
>>>> CONTEXT: PL/Perl function "oils_xslt_process"
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Using this error message, we began to suspect a XSLT transformation 
>>>> being the culprit. We have taken XSL files from Evergreen (those 
>>>> from 
>>>> http://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=Evergreen.git;a=tree;f=Open-ILS/xsl;h=68fd13ffb2ad01ef9ceacf9f18695f25d284df05;hb=HEAD). 
>>>> When they were used (xsltproc MARC21slim2MODS33.xsl 
>>>> americke_romany.xml > output.xml), the contents of the 155 field 
>>>> (which is a heading and therefore one of the most important parts 
>>>> of the record) was never included in the output (please see the 
>>>> attached output.xml file).
>>>>
>>>> Then we used a web client again to change the 155 tag to the 100 
>>>> tag (and deleted another possible troublesome tag 755). After 
>>>> making these changes, the record could be saved.
>>>>
>>>> So the question is:
>>>>
>>>> Where should we add the 155 field (probably in which of the XSLT 
>>>> files) to make sure those records can be saved (or of course 
>>>> reingested)?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance for any hints!
>>>>
>>>> Linda
>>
>


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