Archive for January, 2007
Mapping MARC
I’ve been following (off and on) the discussions on #code4lib about mapping MARC to indices. I know each ILS has a different way of making this happen, but I wonder whether there has been any effort to pool together the decisions people have made (for instance, what MARC fields and subfields should be used [...]
Libxml-Ruby vs. REXML in Ruby-MARC
This weekend I reimplemented the XMLReader and XMLWriter classes in ruby-marc using Libxml-Ruby, a Ruby layer over the Libxml2 C library.
Currently, ruby-marc uses REXML, a pure Ruby XML library. Since REXML is built into Ruby, it is convenient. I was curious, though, how much of a performance boost there would be from using [...]