Please find attached the file I'm trying to parse. It is extracted
from a OAI Data Provider in oai_dc format. The challenge is to
preserve the Thai characters encoded in UTF-8.
I see these are the result of oai-pmh GetRequests. If you like you
can use the SAX handler in Net::OAI::Harvester directly to extract
record objects like so:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use XML::SAX::ParserFactory;
use Net::OAI::Record::OAI_DC;
my $file = shift;
my $factory = XML::SAX::ParserFactory->new();
my $record = Net::OAI::Record::OAI_DC->new();
my $parser = $factory->parser(Handler => $record);
# parse the file
$parser->parse_uri($file);
# print out the title
print $record->title();
That is a script that takes the filename as an argument and prints
out the title. For info about utf8 and perl your best bet is to read
about it in the Camel book (imho). As for a utf8 safe MARC::Record I
believe it's not on CPAN yet, although you can get it out of
SourceForge. Andy Lester manages the CPANification of MARC::Record.
XSL is the logical choice for transforming one version of XML to
another. However if you need to parse XML to stuff rows into a
database it isn't that logical...at least for me.
//Ed
