NAME

PICA::SRUSearchParser - Parse a SRU response in XML and extract PICA+ records.

VERSION

version 0.585

SYNOPSIS

    $parser = PICA::SRUSearchParser->new();
    $xmlparser = $parser->parse( $sru );

    print "numberOfRecords: " . $parser->numberOfRecords . "\n";
    print "resultSetId: " . $parser->resultSetId . "\n";
    print "result: " . $xmlparser->counter() . "\n";

METHODS

new ( [ $xmlparser ] )

Creates a new XML parser to parse an SRU Search Response document. PICA Records are passed to a PICA::XMLParser that must be provided.

parse( $document )

Parse an SRU SearchRetrieve Response (given as XML document) and return the PICA::XMLParser object that has been used.

numberOfRecords ()

Get the total number of records in the SRU result set. The result set may be split into several chunks.

currentNumber ()

Get the current number of records that has been passed. This is equal to or less then numberOfRecords.

resultSetId ()

Get the SRU resultSetId that has been parsed.

PRIVATE HANDLERS

This methods are private SAX handlers to parse the XML.

start_element

SAX handler for XML start tag. On PICA+ records this calls the start handler of PICA::XMLParser, outside of records it parses the SRU response.

end_element

SAX handler for XML end tag. On PICA+ records this calls the end handler of PICA::XMLParser.

characters

SAX handler for XML character data. On PICA+ records this calls the character data handler of PICA::XMLParser.

AUTHOR

Jakob Voß <voss@gbv.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Verbundzentrale Goettingen (VZG) and Jakob Voss.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.