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

[Jared Camins-Esakov]

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