Re: Can't parse MARC Authority XML files with mx: prefixes in their tags

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Christopher Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I tried both of your suggested fixes (changing Name to LocalName, and
> running the updated patch), but no luck. I still get no error messages in
> the error log, but the program silently fails to print a report. If I
> manually remove the "mx:" namespace strings from all the tags, I can process
> the files with no problem. (So one quick fix would be to simply run these
> records through a quick search and replace routine.)
>
> Regarding the problem name authority files. They're all available on the web
> from OCLC's experimental name authority service, at
> http://alcme.oclc.org/eprintsUK/index.html
>
> You enter an author name (I entered "Robert Benchley"). Then I clicked on
> the first link at http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n50-7168.html
>
> Finally, I clicked on the second link ("XML Record") to get this link:
> http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n50-7168.MarcXML All of these have the "mx:"
> namespace notation in their tags.

Thanks.  I will see if I can fix this on my installation, but since
the LocalName (only) change did not work for you I have suspicions
about the particular XML parser that's being chosen for the SAX part
on your system.  The pure-perl parser (in some versions) did not
support namespaces well, and expat can be quirky as well.

I'll let you know what I find, and thanks for testing.

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