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Erik Hatcher wrote: > [snip] > I am, however, skeptical of a purely MARC -> XSLT -> Solr solution. > The MARC data I've seen requires some basic cleanup (removing dots at > the end of subjects, normalizing dates, etc) in order to be useful as > facets. While XSLT is powerful, this type of data manipulation is > better (IMO) done with scripting languages that allow for easy > tweaking in a succinct way. Perhaps what Erik's put his finger on here is as good an excuse as any to raise the Death To ISBD Punctuation banner one more time. Some 60s/70s field termination punctuation rules are at the heart of most of the crud you're trying to scrape off these records. If ever there was a set of encoding rules that were more misguided, I've been fortunate not to encounter them. Walter