winibw2pica - convert WinIBW PICA+ download to valid PICA+
winibw2pica [options] inputfile(s)
-help brief help message -man full documentation with examples -output FILE write PICA+ records to a given file (default: '-' for STDOUT) -prettyxml pretty print PICA/XML -xml output of records in PICA/XML -version show version information
This script can be used to convert "PICA+" download files from WinIBW software to valid PICA+. You can download so called PICA+ from WinIBW with the WinIBW command DOWNLOAD (or just DOW). The calling syntax is
DOW <n1>[-<n2> ] P[<n3>]
Where n1 ist the first and n2 is the last record number that you want to download from the current result list (staring with 1) and n3 is either a library number or A for all libraries. If you omit n3 then only level 0 will be downloaded. Unfortunately the resulting download format is not valid PICA+ but it includes some additional lines, linebreaks and other nasty stuff. This script tries to clean the WinIBW output and returns PICA+ on success.
If this script failed to convert some data, please first make sure to install the latest version of PICA::Record. If there is still an error afterwards, send me a detailed bug report with the version number of this script, the downloaded data, your WinIBW version number and a detailed list of which WinIBW commands you performed to produce the download.
Jakob Voss jakob.voss@gbv.de
This script is published as Public Domain. Feel free to reuse as you like!
