Erik Hatcher wrote:
[snip] I am, however, skeptical of a purely MARC -> XSLT -> Solr solution. The MARC data I've seen requires some basic cleanup (removing dots at the end of subjects, normalizing dates, etc) in order to be useful as facets. While XSLT is powerful, this type of data manipulation is better (IMO) done with scripting languages that allow for easy tweaking in a succinct way.
Perhaps what Erik's put his finger on here is as good an excuse as any to raise the Death To ISBD Punctuation banner one more time. Some 60s/70s field termination punctuation rules are at the heart of most of the crud you're trying to scrape off these records. If ever there was a set of encoding rules that were more misguided, I've been fortunate not to encounter them.
Walter
