Day: July 11, 2006

  • Has anyone ever used Saxon.NET?

    Within MarcEdit, the MarcEngine makes use of the .NET System.xml libraries.  This has been a very good thing in that Microsoft has a very special class setup specifically for XSLT translations — and by adding some additional code and extending the class, I’ve been able to create a very fast XSLT processor.  The downer however…

  • MARC21XML=>Static OAI XSLT Stylesheet

    So I noticed David Bigwood mention on his blog (http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2006/07/static-oai.html) that he wished that there existed an XSLT stylesheet that moved data from MARC21XML to Static OAI.  Well, ask and you shall receive.  While I doubt that David will be able to make use of this (it sounds like he’s finished with his project), maybe…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 pre-update

    There are a few folks that have been requesting this — so I’ll make it available for those wanted to try it.  I’ll formalize the update later this week.  So what does it do?  The change is in how the MarcEngine handles DTDs.  By default, I’ve turned DTD validation off in order to make it…