Date:         Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:03:28 -0500
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From:         Rebecca Lubas <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      FW: MARC2MODS conversion bug
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From: MacKenzie Smith [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 2:37 PM

I found a bug today in the conversion stylesheet for MARC to MODS
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/MARC21slim2MODS.xsl 

If the MARC record has an 010 field with both a current LCCN (subfield a)
and an obsolete LCCN (subfield z), the stylesheet puts the good LCCN
in the <identifier type="lccn"> element, as you would expect,  but it
also adds a "invalid="yes"" attribute because of the presence of the 
subfield z...

This is probably true for other fields that define a subfield z for old or
obsolete identifier values, I just noticed it in the LCCN conversion.

MacKenzie


Rebecca L. Lubas
MIT Libraries
rll@mit.edu 
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