Our Solution - The GenericMarcArticleFmt class

• Basically a replacement for the MarcArticleFmt class.
• Defines several core methods for formatting fields, with overloading of these methods. The core methods are:
  • addGenericField
  • addGenericFieldHotLink
  • addBookmarkField
  Other methods include addFullTextButtonRow, addGenericFieldWBookMark, addGenericSubfields, addGenericSubjectBad (for dealing with badly formatted subject headings that you still want to be hotlinks), addGenericFieldWInternalLabel, and others.
• Methods do not hard code the labels and associated tags. It makes no assumptions about what type of content is in what tag, e.g. the author data may not always be in tag 100 $a. Tags and content labels are passed as parameters when the method is called.
• Still being updated, mainly because we're still enountering new scenerios and exceptions.

Examples of formatting classes that use the GenericMarcArticle class

Here is a full listing of GenericMarcArticleFmt.java, as of March 23, 1999. To use, save it to disk, removing the .txt extension, and copy it to the appropriate directory on your SiteSearch implementation (we use $ROOTDIR/classes/ORG/oclc/fmts/obi). Be sure to include the

     import ORG.oclc.fmts.obi.GenericMarcArticleFmt;

This class has been thoroughly tested with SiteSearch version 4.0a. I'm told that only minor changes to the addBookmarkField method are required for it to work with 4.0.1.

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