NAME

       MARC::File::XML - Work with MARC data encoded as XML

SYNOPSIS

           ## Loading with USE options
           use MARC::File::XML ( BinaryEncoding => 'utf8', RecordFormat => 'UNIMARC' );

           ## Setting the record format without USE options
           MARC::File::XML->default_record_format('USMARC');

           ## reading with MARC::Batch
           my $batch = MARC::Batch->new( 'XML', $filename );
           my $record = $batch->next();

           ## or reading with MARC::File::XML explicitly
           my $file = MARC::File::XML->in( $filename );
           my $record = $file->next();

           ## serialize a single MARC::Record object as XML
           print $record->as_xml();

           ## write a bunch of records to a file
           my $file = MARC::File::XML->out( 'myfile.xml' );
           $file->write( $record1 );
           $file->write( $record2 );
           $file->write( $record3 );
           $file->close();

           ## instead of writing to disk, get the xml directly
           my $xml = join( "\n",
               MARC::File::XML::header(),
               MARC::File::XML::record( $record1 ),
               MARC::File::XML::record( $record2 ),
               MARC::File::XML::footer()
           );

DESCRIPTION

       The MARC-XML distribution is an extension to the MARC-Record distribution for working with
       MARC21 data that is encoded as XML. The XML encoding used is the MARC21slim schema
       supplied by the Library of Congress. More information may be obtained here:
       http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/

       You must have MARC::Record installed to use MARC::File::XML. In fact once you install the
       MARC-XML distribution you will most likely not use it directly, but will have an
       additional file format available to you when you use MARC::Batch.

       This version of MARC-XML supersedes an the versions ending with 0.25 which were used with
       the MARC.pm framework. MARC-XML now uses MARC::Record exclusively.

       If you have any questions or would like to contribute to this module please sign on to the
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METHODS

       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.

TODO

       •   Support for callback filters in decode().

SEE ALSO

       <http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/>
       MARC::File::USMARC
       MARC::Batch
       MARC::Record

AUTHORS

       •   Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com>