When you use MARC::File::XML your MARC::Record objects will have two new additional methods available to
them:
MARC::File::XML->default_record_format([$format])
Sets or returns the default record format used by MARC::File::XML. Valid formats are MARC21, USMARC,
UNIMARC and UNIMARCAUTH.
MARC::File::XML->default_record_format('UNIMARC');
as_xml()
Returns a MARC::Record object serialized in XML. You can pass an optional format parameter to tell
MARC::File::XML what type of record (USMARC, UNIMARC, UNIMARCAUTH) you are serializing.
print $record->as_xml([$format]);
as_xml_record([$format])
Returns a MARC::Record object serialized in XML without a collection wrapper. You can pass an optional
format parameter to tell MARC::File::XML what type of record (USMARC, UNIMARC, UNIMARCAUTH) you are
serializing.
print $record->as_xml_record('UNIMARC');
new_from_xml([$encoding,$format])
If you have a chunk of XML and you want a record object for it you can use this method to generate a
MARC::Record object. You can pass an optional encoding parameter to specify which encoding (UTF-8 or
MARC-8) you would like the resulting record to be in. You can also pass a format parameter to specify
the source record type, such as UNIMARC, UNIMARCAUTH, USMARC or MARC21.
my $record = MARC::Record->new_from_xml( $xml, $encoding, $format );
Note: only works for single record XML chunks.
If you want to write records as XML to a file you can use out() with write() to serialize more than one
record as XML.
out()
A constructor for creating a MARC::File::XML object that can write XML to a file. You must pass in the
name of a file to write XML to. If the $encoding parameter or the DefaultEncoding (see above) is set to
UTF-8 then the binmode of the output file will be set appropriately.
my $file = MARC::File::XML->out( $filename [, $encoding] );
write()
Used in tandem with out() to write records to a file.
my $file = MARC::File::XML->out( $filename );
$file->write( $record1 );
$file->write( $record2 );
close()
When writing records to disk the filehandle is automatically closed when you the MARC::File::XML object
goes out of scope. If you want to close it explicitly use the close() method.
If you want to generate batches of records as XML, but don't want to write to disk you'll have to use
header(), record() and footer() to generate the different portions.
$xml = join( "\n",
MARC::File::XML::header(),
MARC::File::XML::record( $record1 ),
MARC::File::XML::record( $record2 ),
MARC::File::XML::record( $record3 ),
MARC::File::XML::footer()
);
header()
Returns a string of XML to use as the header to your XML file.
footer()
Returns a string of XML to use at the end of your XML file.
record()
Returns a chunk of XML suitable for placement between the header and the footer.
decode()
You probably don't ever want to call this method directly. If you do you should pass in a chunk of XML as
the argument.
It is normally invoked by a call to next(), see MARC::Batch or MARC::File.
MARC::File::XML->set_parser($parser)
Pass a XML::LibXML parser to MARC::File::XML for it to use. This is optional, meant for use by
applications that maintain a shared parser object or which require that external entities be processed.
Note that the latter is a potential security risk; see
<https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XML_External_Entity_(XXE)_Processing>.
encode()
You probably want to use the as_xml() method on your MARC::Record object instead of calling this
directly. But if you want to you just need to pass in the MARC::Record object you wish to encode as XML,
and you will be returned the XML as a scalar.
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