> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:15:30 +0100
> From: Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > We saw  and see (!) the problem when we convert from USMARC/MARC21 to
> > MARCXML. Obviously the MARC control chars are not a problem since these
> > are part of the ISO2709 structure, but sometimes you see Control chars
> > in MARC records..
>
> Could you use METS or similar to wrap the XML document?

Sure, but then we wouldn't be converting MARC to MarcXML; we'd be
converting MARC to METS.

It's a nice solution, but it doesn't fit the problem :-)

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