[Koha-devel] Default XML entity encoding in C4::Record::marc2marcxml

9 Feb 2013

      Hi,
if you try to export a record from opac or intranet to marcxml, the
record has accents or other symbols replaced by character entities.

The function C4::record::marc2marcxml expects 4 arguments, the last
one instructs to do or not that kind of replacement.

sub marc2marcxml {
        my ($marc,$encoding,$flavour,$dont_entity_encode) = @_;
...
                        # entity encode the XML unless instructed not to
                unless ($dont_entity_encode) {
                        my ($marcxml_entity_encoded) = _entity_encode($marcxml);
                        $marcxml = $marcxml_entity_encoded;
                }

But for example in opac-export.pl is called simply as

elsif ($format =~ /marcxml/) {
    $marc = marc2marcxml($marc);
    $format = 'marcxml';
}

Is there a reason to do the character entity encoding by default?

Regards,
Bernardo

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Bernardo Gonzalez Kriegel
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