[Koha] Should XSLT add punctuation?

[Katrin Fischer]

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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