I think this is a case of being in violent agreement -- see some earlier replies in this thread --
Pragmatically, if you are going to hew to marc-8 encoding transported in XML -- you are losing the usefulness of standard tools for xml --
smm
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of LeVan,Ralph
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:21 PM
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] MarcXML and char encodings
>> No -- it is perfectly legal - -but you MUST declare the encoding to
BE Marc8 in the XML prolog,
> Wait, how canyou declare a Marc8 encoding in an XML
> decleration/prolog/whatever it's called?
Nope, you can't do that. There is no approved name for the MARC-8
encoding. As Andy said, the closest you could get would be to make up
an experimental name, like x-marc-8, but no tool in the world would
recognize that.
Ralph
Received on Tue Apr 17 2012 - 16:27:07 EDT