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Hi Emily, part of the XC project is a NCIP client application writen in PHP as two Drupal modules. It is writen partly as classes. It doesn't implement all of the NCIP verbs, but can be a good starting point. The current stable version supports NCIP v. 1.0, and now we are working on NCIP2 (we are on testing phase). You can find the source at http://drupal.org/project/xc. I don't want to go into technical details here, but if you would like more guidance and tips, I would be happy to help you. Best! Péter 2012/1/2 Emily Lynema <[log in to unmask]> > Hi folks, > > We are working with Lehigh University on building out a more full-fledged > SirsiDynix Symphony adapter to work with the XC NCIP toolkit. We will > hopefully building our new Patron Account interface on top of the > eXtensible Catalog NCIP toolkit. > > Obviously, to build our new interface on top of the NCIP toolkit, we need > to generate NCIP XML requests and parse NCIP XML responses. These things > are a bit gnarly to work with, and I'm not sure that PHP is exactly known > for excellence in working with XML. Has anyone ever dabbled in this area > before? Created an awesome PHP library we could just pick up and use? Have > any particular pointers? > > We have Zend framework at our disposal in terms of PHP frameworks, and will > likely be using that for this project. I don't know in particular if it has > good XML parsing tools (my staff probably would), but even if it does, we > still have to sort through the NCIP verbosity. > > Just thought I'd check. > > -emily > -- Péter Király eXtensible Catalog http://eXtensibleCatalog.org http://drupal.org/project/xc