2008/10/29 Bill Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I ran across some gnarly MARC data today, which contained, among other > things, MARC codes of "<". I realized that Marc::File::XML outputs the MARC > tags, codes, and indicators without escaping them. This results, in my > case, in invalid XML like: > > <subfield code="<">France</subfield> > > It seems reasonable that, regardless of the (horrible) content of the MARC, > marc::file::xml should produce valid XML. > > Attached is a patch to explicitly escape the values before inserting them > into the XML document under construction. I'm not sure if it's the best > approach, but it got me up and running again.
Any chance of including a sample (horrible) MARC record to include in a testcase? I'm not saying I would build a testcase for MARC::File::XML, but I might build one for File_MARC (PHP)... and a nice horrible MARC record from the wild would help. -- Dan Scott Laurentian University
