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Thanks, Jonathan. We'll definitely check it out. -- Scott On 11/20/2013 12:13 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > On 11/20/13 12:51 PM, Scott Prater wrote: >> I think the issue comes down to a distinction between a stream and a >> record. Ideally, the ruby-marc library would keep pointers to which >> record it is in, where the record begins, and where the record ends in >> the stream. If a valid header and end-of-record delimiter are in place, >> then the library should be able to reject the record if it contains >> garbage in between those two points, without compromising the integrity >> of the entire stream. > > I understand what you're saying, and why it's attractive. I am not sure > if ruby-marc can do that right now. I am not personally interested in > adding that at this particular time -- I just spent a couple days adding > Marc8 support in the first place, and that's enough for me for now. I > was just soliciting some feedback on a point I wasn't sure about with > the new MARC8 api, honestly. > > But pull requests are always welcome! Also feel free to check out > ruby-marc to see if it accomodates your desired usage already or not, > and let us know, even without a pull request! > > If you (or anyone) are interested in checking out the MARC8 support > added to ruby-marc, it's currently in a branch not yet merged in or > released, but probably will be soon. > > https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby-marc/tree/marc8 > https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby-marc/pull/23 -- Scott Prater Shared Development Group General Library System University of Wisconsin - Madison [log in to unmask] 5-5415