Hi Caroline. the question of ISBD punctuation has been giving us quite some trouble as in Germany it's usually not added (leader/18 as you pointed out). In Koha a compley 245 with abcnp will look wrong without any punctuation and Koha is not adding it. I think at the moment leader/18 is not checked at all, Koha assumes that it's dealing with records that contain ISBD punctuation, but often removes it. Not having 'grown up' with MARC21 the trailing '.' always looks a bit odd to me when it's displayed in the OPAC, but we should definitely be consistent. I don't have a clear opinion, but maybe we need to overhaul our XSLT and check for leader/18. Katrin On 22.08.2018 23:45, Caroline Cyr-La-Rose wrote:
Hello everyone!
I have a question regarding the XSLT stylesheets (for MARC21). Is it supposed to change the punctuation when displaying the record?
For instance, I have a record where there is a period (.) at the end of 100$e. So in MARC, it looks like
100 1# a Goscinny, René, d 1926-1977-, e author.
In intranet details, it looks like
Goscinny, René, 1926-1977- [author.].
There are two periods (and no comma after the date).
In the 260 field, the opposite happens. There is a period at the end of 260$c in MARC, but nothing is appearing in intranet results.
260 ## a Paris : b Gallimard jeunesse, c [2014].
In the intranet details, it looks like
Paris : Gallimard jeunesse, [2014]
There is no period after the date.
It's not clear what the XSLT is trying to do. On one hand, it looks like it's trying to complete the punctuation, but it removes it sometimes.
My knowledge of AACR2 rules for punctuation was wiped from my brain the second I graduated ~10 years ago (maybe even before, if I'm being really honest!), so I'm not even sure what the right punctuation is supposed to be.
But my question is if the XSLT is supposed to mess with the punctuation or not? And if the answer is yes, shouldn't it look first in leader/18 to see if the record already has punctuation?
Thank you for your help koha!
Caroline
Caroline Cyr La Rose, M.L.I.S. Librarian, Head of training and support inLibro
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