RE: MARC::File::XML and parsing.

2007-09-27 Thread Doran, Michael D
Hi Henri, > Is there a reason why MARC::File::XML considers only a very > strict subset of utf-8 as valid ? I would guess that it has to do with adhering to the MARC-21 repertoire of characters, so as to facilitate the round-trip conversion between the MARC-8 and Unicode character sets [1,2].

State of the ZOOM-API implementation in perl?

2007-09-27 Thread Jakob Voss
Hi, I am trying to establish an SRU connection with perl using the ZOOM API (http://zoom.z3950.org/api/). CPAN module Net-Z3950-ZOOM-1.20 says that the class ZOOM::Connection "represents a connection to an information retrieval server, using an IR protocol such as ANSI/NISO Z39.50, SRW (the