[Koha] importing, marc mapping, progress

[Paul POULAIN]

Scott Scriven wrote:

> <>Hello...
>
> I was thinking about building a full MARC display today, and then
> came across some related messages... Anyway, here is how I was
> thinking of implementing a more complete display. It essentially
> involves a marc tag list consumable by the template, and a
> generic CSS-friendly display controlled by a separate CSS file.
> Details are below:
>
> Build a hash of marc data for each relevant record. Perhaps
> two-layered, to account for both fields and subfields. These
> will go into a list I'll call "records". Pass this to the
> display template along with the koha data.
>
> While displaying the records, the template should pull out and
> consume (remove from the hash) whatever fields are desired,
> then display the rest afterward, in a generic format. To
> prevent display of a field, the template should consume it
> without printing it.
>
> The template would generate output similar to...
> (pseudocode, but for clarity, code is in <? ?>'s)
>
> <div class="book_overview">
> <div class="245a"><h4>Title:</h4>
> <span class="245a"><? print record["245"]["a"] ?></span>
> <? delete record["245"]["a"] ?>
> </div>
> <div class="100a"><h4>Author:</h4>
> <span class="100a"><? print record["100"]["a"] ?></span>
> <? delete record["100"]["a"] ?>
> </div>
> </div>
>
> ... and below (any info not used above) ... a titled div for each
> tag, containing a titled div for each subfield and the actual
> data in a span:
>
> Additional MARC Info
> +------------------------------------------------+
> | Additional author (700) |
> | +--------------------------------------------+ |
> | | Personal Name (700 $a): Doe, John | |
> | +--------------------------------------------+ |
> | +--------------------------------------------+ |
> | | Description (700 $g): blah blah blah | |
> | +--------------------------------------------+ |
> +------------------------------------------------+
>
> <div class="marc">
> <? for each tag in record: ?>
> <div class="<? print tag ?>">
> <h3><? print tag_names[tag], (tag) ?>/h3>
> <? for each field in record[tag]: ?>
> <div class="<? print tag, field ?>">
> <h4><? print tag_names[tag], (tag) ?></h4>
> <span class="<? print tag, field ?>">
> <? print record[tag][field] ?>
> </span>
> </div>
> <? end for ?>
> </div>
> <? end for ?>
> </div>
>
> Layout detail would then be implemented with CSS, with generic
> formatting for most tags and special formatting for any known
> tags which should stand out. See http://csszengarden.com/ for
> details of how this sort of layout can work.
>
> Anyway, this would require the template to do a little more than
> just print out variables. It would need to call functions and/or
> unset hash entries. Is that possible?
>
> Does any of this sound reasonable?

It's almost what we plan to do for "ISBD view". Not exactly, but near.
About css, i must admit i'm not a css-master, so help in actual code is 
welcomed (note it's better in the coming 2.2, but not yet 
csszengarden-top-quality ;-) =

> <> Should I be posting on the
> dev list instead?

yes, I cc it.

-- 
Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://www.koha-fr.org)