On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Reese, Terry
<terry.reese_at_oregonstate.edu>wrote:
> I wouldn't. One of the benefits of marcxml is that you are not
> constrained by marcs record length issues. Deciding to calculate that
> value would add an arbitrary length limitation to the format (in my
> opinion).
>
Not to mention that the value includes the length added by the internal
index. The internal index is not represented in MARCXML and constitutes a
substantial portion of the total record length when there are a large
number of fields. If someone has actually implemented a system that uses
this value, the designers can be dismissed as being completely mental.
kyle
Received on Fri Jun 29 2012 - 13:27:23 EDT