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Right. I keep a "sequence" number for the fields so they can be re-ordered
if need be, but it just seemed too much of a pain (and edge case) to worry
about subfield order.

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Houghton,Andrew <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Bill Dueber
> > Sent: 23 April, 2008 10:34
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [CODE4LIB] MARC::Record::JSON perl and javascript
> > modules on Google Code
> >
> > The MARC::Record::JSON data structure itself is *not*
> > round-tripable (order of subfields within a field is not
> > preserved), but makes for an easy-to-work-with format in
> > read-only situations that one would probably be encountering
> > within a web page.
>
> Depending upon how you structure your JSON, you could make it
> round-tripable where the order is preserved.  There are some
> tradeoffs, though.
>
>
> Andy.
>



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Bill Dueber
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University of Michigan Library