Re: RISX vs. RIS

Hallöchen!

Torsten Bronger writes:

> [...]
>
> The data model of my front-end is RISX.  Where can I get
> information about how to interpret the RISX fields for the
> different types?  [...]  But this makes is necessary to map RISX
> to RIS.  Is there information about this?

I investigated further and now I'm slightly confused.  The RefDB
manual says that RISX should be prefered for communicating with the
database, and even that it should be used for backup dumps.
However, it can't hold all the data in the database.  For example,
if I store a book reference, there is a "volume" and an "edition"
field, however in RISX, only "volume" survives.  In other words, the
RISX dump is not lossless.  An RIS dump contains all fields, though.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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