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Revision history for Perl extension MARC-XML

1.0  Sun Feb 10 21:32:32 PST 2013
       - Use XML::LibXML rather than XML::SAX to parse MARCXML records.
         This offers a significant speed improvement for record parsing;
         in some tests, parsing time on a large file was reduced by 80%.
         This also avoids problems caused by character encoding bugs in
         XML::SAX::PurePerl.
       - Add method to let client code give MARC::File::XML a shared
         XML::LibXML parser object.

0.93 Fri Feb 11 17:13:02 EST 2011
       - When slurping MARCXML records (e.g., via MARC::Batch), can
         now handle XML files that use a prefix
         to refer to the http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim namespace.
       - If trying to parse a MARCXML record that has omitted
         the <record> wrapper element, throw an exception
         with a more meaningful error message.
       - adjusted copyright statement further to meet Debian requirements
         (RT#48333)
       - set license in Makefile.PL
 
0.92 Thu Jul 30 22:37:07 EDT 2009
      - small documentation changes to close RT tickets #48334 and #48333
        filed by Jonathan from Debian world.
      - added license string to META.yml so that CPAN can pick it up

0.91 Tue Jul 28 2009
      - Nixing the stray space (always been there) in the schemaLocation
        attribute for single-record output
      - Properly apply the leader modification for USMARC to signal UTF-8
        encoding.
      - Escape '<', '>', and '&' used as indicator values and subfield labels 
        during XML output (Bill Erickson)
      - CPAN RT#34082: clarify names of header output switches

0.90 Fri Dec 14 2007
      - modifications to MARC::File::SAX to use LocalName rather than Name
        Name can contain a namespace prefix and cause parsing to fail
        Should be ok to rely on LocalName since the parser factory is
        requiring Namespace support?
      - MARC::File::SAX also can build up multiple records now, for use 
        in other SAX contexts like Net::OAI::Harvester. This required
        a few changes in MARC::File::XML as well.

0.88 Wed Nov 28 2007
      - String test for subfield code to avoid dropping $0 (Galen Charlton)

0.88_1 Tue Oct 23 2007
      - Fixed a typo in M::F::X that could be the origin of the test failure(miker)
      - Removed some useless (and confusing) code that
	    throws away some character set mapping information in the 066 (miker)

0.85 Fri Feb 13 2007
      - fixed typo in handling of unimarc w/regard to marc8 (ppoulain)

0.84 Mon Nov 26 2006
      - Fixed UNIMARC encoding detection logic (miker)
	  - Added UNIMARC Authority support (miker) 

0.83 Fri Apr 21 15:19:20 EST 2006
      - remove premature return from close() thanks Jay Luker (exlibris)

0.82 March 4, 2006
      - details unknown :(

0.81  Fri Feb  3 23:29:04 EST 2006
      - minor changes so that diagnostics (when character mappings aren't found)
        will not throw warnings about unitialized variables too.

0.8   Fri Feb  3 22:49:11 EST 2006
      - overhaul by Mike Rylander to use the new MARC::Charset for mapping
        back and forth from marc8 encoding to utf8 encoding
      - Makefile.PL requires v0.9 of MARC::Charset to be installed

0.7   Thu Apr 14 11:54:24 CDT 2005
      - marc2xml uses MARC::Batch in lenient mode, thanks Rob Casson.

0.66  Thu Sep 23 01:12:20 CDT 2004 
      - added ability to change the encoding attribute.

0.65  Wed May 19 21:22:23 2004 
      - added marc2xml and xml2marc utilities

0.61  Mon May 09 10:32:55 2004 
      - need to require MARC::Record v1.36 since it renames is_control_tag()
        to is_control_field().

0.6   Sat May 08 02:23:04 2004 
      - rudimentary XML encoding (thanks to Peter Robertson for inquiring 
        about it)

0.53  Mon Dec 01 17:32:01 2003 
      - fixed to still process XML that has namespaces on record element
        thanks Clay Redding at princeton.edu.

0.52  Wed Oct 29 20:18:44 2003 
      - fixed doc bug

0.51  Thu Sep 04 10:33:12 2003 
      - fixed warnings in MARC::File::SAX which were emitted under new 
        Test::Harness.
      - docfix in MARC::File::XML.

0.5   Thu Jul 29 13:55:38 2003 
      - updated so that it uses LC's MARCXML schema
      - updated so that it can plug into MARC::Record 

0.4   Sun Apr 23 20:50:47 CDT 2000 <Birthisel>
      - Update "Windows" test in Makefile.PL
      - Needs MARC 1.07 to cover recent fixes and incompatibilities
      - Perl 5.6.0 warns on "join (//,", change to "join (''," instead.
      - add $MARC::TEST to t/test?.t
      - various documentation fixes

0.3   Tue Jan 25 15:43:55 CST 2000 <Birthisel>
      - update to XML::Parser 2.27 and MARC 1.04
      - add Document Type Declaration support
      - header defaults to "US-ASCII"
      - add character set output processing and ansel_default
      - add entity input translation and register_default
      - add incremental input file processing: openxml, nextxml, closexml
      - add eg/pacific.pl, eg/pacific0.dat, and eg/read_pfa.pl
      - add t/ansel.ent and expand test2.t
      - rename $XDEBUG, add $XTEST and xcarp()
      - add "wrapper" methods output_header, output_body, output_footer

0.26  Fri Jan 7 22:35:40 EST 2000 
      - Corrected dangerous interpolation in field_ handler

0.25  Tue Nov 23 11:32:16 CST 1999 <Birthisel>
      - original CPAN-style version; created by h2xs 1.18
      - linux command: h2xs -A -X -n MARC::XML
      - added Makefile.PL, MANIFEST, README, etc.
      - ported t directory and tests from MARC.pm, added test4.t
      - surgery--XML::Parser wants global subs and other scope changes.
      - cleanup inheritance details
      - add "ordered" option to new()
      - numerous documentation changes


0.2   Sun Nov 21 18:49:00 EST 1999 
      - removed MARC::XML specific pod from MARC.pm and added to MARC::XML

0.1   Sun Nov 14 21:59:00 EST 1999 
      - created MARC::XML subclass to handle MARC<->XML conversions
      - moved _marc2xml() from MARC.pm into MARC::XML

0.01  Tue Jul 29 13:55:38 2003
      - original release