NAME

Catmandu::Importer::PICA - Package that imports PICA+ data

SYNOPSIS

    use Catmandu::Importer::PICA;

    my $importer = Catmandu::Importer::PICA->new(file => "pica.xml", type=> "XML");

    my $n = $importer->each(sub {
        my $hashref = shift;
        # ...
    });

To convert between PICA+ syntax variants with the catmandu command line client:

    catmandu convert PICA --type xml to PICA --type plain < picadata.xml

DESCRIPTION

Parses PICA format to native Perl hash containing two keys _id and record. See PICA::Data for more information about PICA data format and record structure.

METHODS

This module inherits all methods of Catmandu::Importer and by this Catmandu::Iterable.

CONFIGURATION

In addition to the configuration provided by Catmandu::Importer (file, fh, etc.) the importer can be configured with the following parameters:

type

Describes the PICA+ syntax variant. Supported values (case ignored) include the default value xml for PicaXML, plain for human-readable PICA+ serialization (where $ is used as subfield indicator), plus or picaplus for normalized PICA+, import for PICA import format, binary for binary PICA+ and ppxml for the PICA+ XML variant of the DNB.

level

Split and reduce records to level 0, 1 or 2 with identifiers of broader levels included.