[Koha-devel] RFC Adding column to biblio for Remainder Of Title

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Michael Hafen <mdhafen at tech.washk12.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 19:31 -0500, Joshua Ferraro wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Michael Hafen <mdhafen at tech.washk12.org> wrote:
>> > I looked at it briefly for a different field, and found my understanding
>> > of XSL lacking.  Adding a column to the database was the quick solution
>> > for me.
>> XSL would also solve the specific problem you have, just turn on those
>> two sysprefs and walla ...
>>
>
> Well, it's not actually that straight forward.  I still have to learn
> how to read and modify an XSLT stylesheet.
It is if all you want to solve is 245$b ... that's already in the stylesheet.

Cheers,

Josh
>> > I guess I can take another look.  It might be a good solution.  My
>> > thinking is that it's good to see data from the two ( potentially
>> > different ) copies of the record, what's in the database columns and
>> > what's in the marcxml column.  I'll have to look again at the XSL to see
>> > where it comes from too.
>> marcxml has a full MARCXML record blob representing the entire
>> bibliographic and item information for that record. XSL has the
>> advantage of being able to handle repeatable fields, wheras the
>> current database design for Koha can only handle non-repeatable
>> fields.
>>
>
> It did occur to me that the database can only handle non-repeatable
> fields.  Luckily for me 245$b is non-repeatable in the Koha Default
> Biblio Template.  Still I think it would be possible to handle
> repeatable fields, just concatenate the fields together with a
> seperator, but the database columns would have to be very large to do it
> right.  That isn't really a good solution.
>
> At any rate I will take a look at the XSL files.
>
> This raises the question of how many others are interested in a patch to
> this end.  Ryan may want to comment here as he has already stated that
> LibLime uses XSLT.  Any others want to comment?
>
>> Josh
>>
>
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