David,

When I said "schema" I wasn't referring to the XML schema standard but, more generically, the layout of the data. The SXML from Gartner is what you'll need to convert to MARC. Chances are the conversion will be a bit of a challenge if you aren't familiar with XSLT, since it's unlikely that they designed their format with MARC conversions in mind. However, it would almost certainly be doable.

Regards,
Jared

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library <David.W.Hartman@disney.com> wrote:

Their source XML is in a slightly customized DocBook DTD (not schema) version 4.2. If you are referring to the XML Gartner delivers (our SXML), then that is a proprietary DTD that is included inside of the XML.

 

 

 

From: Jared Camins-Esakov [mailto:jcamins@cpbibliography.com]
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 10:55 AM
To: Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Is it possible to take an XML feed of individual records and bring it into Koha or MARC format?

 

David,

The short answer is "yes." The long answer is, "yes, but you'll probably need to do some sort of conversion." I'd use XSLT for the transformation.

Do you know what schema Gartner uses? If you're lucky, it's something that the Library of Congress already provides a stylesheet for. If not (and it probably isn't, alas), chances are good you'll need a custom stylesheet to take their data and turn it into useful MARCXML (and from there you can convert it into binary MARC, and thence import it into Koha).

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Jared

2011/12/9 Hartman, David W. - GBTS Library <David.W.Hartman@disney.com>

Is it possible to take an XML feed of individual records and bring it into Koha or MARC format?

 

Gartner can only send their article records to me as XML …  I don’t know how to get it from XML to MARC..

 

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