YAZ-RECORD-ICONV(1)

💖 YAZ-RECORD-ICONV(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this whole page lives in the Commands section of the manual, and the title up top is literally YAZ-RECORD-ICONV(1) — that's the main character name of this entry, periodt. come sit with me, we're learning a lil utility 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

yaz-record-conv — the YAZ Record Conversion Utility 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, the whole vibe in one line:

yaz-record-conv [-v loglevel] [config] [fname...]

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

ngl, yaz-record-conv is a program that exercises the record conversion sub system. that's literally its whole job, she's a tester girlie 💅

if you want the real tea on how it works, go peek at the record_conv.h header. iykyk 📖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -v _level_ — sets the LOG level to _level_. and okay here's the thing: _level_ isn't just one thing, it's a sequence of tokens separated by comma 🍓. each token is either an integer, or one of these named LOG items: fatal, debug, warn, log, malloc, all, none. mix and match, it's giving buffet.

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

okay so this next part? iconic. this backend config converts MARC records (ISO2709) to Dublin-Core XML ✨

<backend name="F" syntax="usmarc">
  <marc inputcharset="marc-8" inputformat="marc" outputformat="marcxml"/>
  <xslt stylesheet="../etc/MARC21slim2DC.xsl"/>
</backend>

and then — not me actually converting one of the sample records from YAZ' test directory 🫶 — we can do exactly that with:

$ ../util/yaz-record-conv record-conv-conf.xml marc6.marc
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <dc:title>How to program a computer</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>
    Jack Collins
  </dc:creator>
  <dc:type>text</dc:type>
  <dc:publisher>Penguin</dc:publisher>
  <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
</dc:dc>

look at that output. she ate and left no crumbs 😭💖

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• record_conv.h — the header file, the source of all truth, the blueprint bestie 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• yaz(7) — go read that one too, she's the bigger sister 💜

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

Index Data — the icons who made this 🫶

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aaaand that's the page!! this little beauty is from YAZ 5.38.1, dated 10/16/2026 — so yeah, that's the version and the date, noted for the record, no cap ⭐ mwah, go convert some records 💅✨💀