Re: MARC records, and inheritance

2004-03-15 Thread Enrico Silterra
Ed, I am just beginning to think about these things, but it seems to me that the MARC Record is a storage format for things are in reality quite different objects, bibliographic records, holdings, name authority, etc. The methods for handling the format all work fine, of course, across these types

Re: MARC records, and inheritance

2004-03-15 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:21:49AM -0500, Enrico Silterra wrote: > For instance, a holding record has no title fields at all. I think, maybe, > the title method should throw an exception, or error when you try to grab > the 245 of a holding or other record. (or call a user defined error handler)