MARC2XML(1p)

✨ MARC2XML(1p) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the MARC2XML page — it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and honestly? it's giving quietly essential 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

marc2xml — the lil command that turns a MARC file into XML 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Want to convert a whole file? Say less:

# convert a file
% marc2xml marc.dat > marc.xml

Or if you're more of a pipeline girlie (and why wouldn't you be):

# or use in a pipeline
% cat marc.dat | marc2xml > marc.xml

Both slay. Both work. Pick your vibe 💅

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

So marc2xml is a command line utility — like, you run it in your terminal, that's the whole thing — and its job is converting MARC21 bibliographic data into XML using the Library of Congress Slim Schema. Iconic schema, no notes.

The actual conversion heavy-lifting is handled by the MARC::Record and MARC::File::XML packages, so if you ever want to peek under the hood or blame someone lovingly, that's where the magic lives 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie — short, sweet, does exactly what it says on the tin 💜

this one's from perl v5.32.1, dated 2022-01-20 — so go forth, convert your MARC, and be the main character of your own data pipeline 👑✨