[Koha] rebuild_nozebra.pl failures: wide characters and missing end tags in MARC XML

[Joe Atzberger]

You should look at the files you imported with MarcEdit or a similar tool.
It may be necessary to reimport the corrected files after repairing them.

--Joe

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Jeffrey LePage
<jeffrey_lepage at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> We have a small library, and for the sake of simplicity, we run without
> zebra.
>
> When I run rebuild_nozebra.pl interactively I'm getting errors on 15 of our
> 8000+ records.    Judging by the biblioitem numbers, I think all or most of
> these records got into the system when we imported MARC records from
> Sagebrush Athena.
>
> The errors fall into 2 categories:
>
> Error 1
> ----------------
> Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/Encode.pm
> line 166
>
> I can see the wide characters when I query biblioitems.marcxml.  For
> example, there's an accent mark over an illustrator's name in one of the
> Harry Potter books.
>
> How do I fix these records? I note that the biblioitems table contains:
>   a) marcxml longtext
>   b) marc longblob
>
> Error 2
> ---------------
> No close tag marker
>
> The MARC record is indeed missing close tags.  In each case, the datafield
> tag 952, subfield 6 is not closed.  The MARC record ends like this:
>
> <datafield tag=952" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
>  <subfield code="7">0</subfield>
>  <subfield code="p">5595</subfield>
>  <subfield code="4">0</subfield>
>  <subfield code="0">0</subfield>
>  <subfield code="6">SPA_635_900000000000000_S
>
>
> *******************
> How should I fix these errors and how should I prevent them in the future?
>  If I manually repair biblioitems.marcxml do I also need to repair
> biblioitems.marc (which is a blob)?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff LePage
>
>
>
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