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<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>record_transform</refentrytitle>
<refnamediv>
<refname>record_transform</refname>
- <refpurpose>Z3950 present package record transformation</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Metaproxy Module that performs Z39.50 presentResponse record transformations</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
This filter acts only on Z3950 present requests, and let all
other types of packages and requests pass untouched. It's use is
twofold: blocking Z3950 present requests, which the backend
- server does not understand and can not honour, and transforming
+ server does not understand and can not honor, and transforming
the present syntax and elementset name according to the rules
- specified, to fetch only exisitng record formats, and transform
+ specified, to fetch only existing record formats, and transform
them on the fly to requested record syntaxes.
</para>
<para>
element. The <literal>syntax</literal> attribute is mandatory, but
the <literal>name</literal> attribute
may be omitted, in which case any
- element name is accepted. An additonal
- <literal>identifier</literal> attribute can be added to explicetly
+ element name is accepted. An additional
+ <literal>identifier</literal> attribute can be added to explicitly
describe the Z3950 identifier string.
</para>
<para>
Record transformations are invoked when the optional attributes
<literal>backendsyntax</literal> and <literal>backendname</literal>
as well as the <literal><convert></literal> element are specified.
- Record conversions come in two flavours:
+ Record conversions come in two flavors:
<literal><marc></literal> binary conversions between different
binary MARC formats and MarcXML formats, and
<literal><xslt></literal> stylesheet transformations performed