marcspec / marc-spec

MARCspec parser and validator for Perl

#MARCspec - A common MARC record path language

MARCspec is the specification of a reference, encoded as string, to a set of data from within a MARC record.

See http://marcspec.github.io/MARCspec for lastest specification.

marc-spec's Issues

POD NAME structure

I want to build a Debian package for MARC-Spec. Lintian complains about manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry, which I think is triggered by the structure of the POD NAME element, which is supposed to be "name - description".

Question: what is the syntax to point to a MARC indicator?

To point to a 245 field with indicator1 == 1 one could use the MARC spec:

245_1

To point to a 245$a subfield with indicator1 == 1 one could use the MARC spec:

245_1$a

Question: is it possible to very explicitly point to the value of the first indicator in 245 (not to the field value or the subfield value)? Or, is this dependent on the context of use when working with MARC spec. E.g. in hypothetical functions:

 remove_field(245_1)            <- 245_1 is the MARC 245 field with indicator1 == 1
 remove_indicator(245_1)     <- 245_1 is the MARC 245 indicator1. (not the field).