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[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) 4. / 5. hebis/picareader ActiveLibrary[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) hebis/picareader ================ Classes for reading Pica+ records encoded in Pica, PicaXML and PicaPlain v1.1.0(9y ago)04.9k1GPL-3.0+PHP Since May 23Pushed 2y ago2 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/HeBIS-VZ/PicaReader)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/hebis/picareader)[ RSS](/packages/hebis-picareader/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelog (1)Dependencies (1)Versions (5)Used By (0) PicaReader – Classes for reading Pica+ records ============================================== [](#picareader--classes-for-reading-pica-records) About ===== [](#about) PicaReader provides classes for reading Pica+ records encoded in PicaXML and PicaPlain. PicaReader is copyright (c) 2012-2016 by Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3. Installation ============ [](#installation) You can install PicaReader via Composer. ``` composer require hab/picareader ``` Usage ===== [](#usage) All readers adhere to the same interface. You open the reader with a string of input data by calling `Reader::open()` and can call `Reader::read()` to read the next record in the input data. If the input does not contain (anymore) records `Reader::read()` returns `FALSE`. Otherwise it returns either a record object created with PicaRecord’s `Record::factory()` function. ``` $reader = new \HAB\Pica\Reader\PicaXmlReader() $reader->open(file_get_contents('http://unapi.gbv.de?id=opac-de-23:ppn:635012286&format=picaxml')); $record = $reader->read(); $reader->close(); ``` To filter out records or fields you can attach a filter to the reader via `Reader::setFilter()`. A filter is any valid PHP callback that takes an associative array representing the record as argument and returns a possibly modified array or `FALSE` if the entire record should be skipped. The array representation of a record is defined as follows: ``` RECORD := array('fields' => array(FIELD, …)) FIELD := array('tag' => TAG, 'occurrence' => OCCURRENCE, 'subfields' => array(SUBFIELD, …)) SUBFIELD := array('code' => CODE, 'value' => VALUE) ``` Where `TAG`, `OCCURRENCE`, `CODE`, and `VALUE` are the respective properties of a Pica+ field or subfield. For example, if your source delivers malformed PicaXML records like so: ``` 0001:14-09-10 … ``` You can attach a filter function to remove these fields with an invalid tag: ``` $reader = new PicaXmlReader(); $reader->setFilter(function (array $r) { return array('fields' => array_filter($r['fields'], function (array $f) { return isset($f['tag']) && \HAB\Pica\Record\Field::isValidFieldTag($f['tag']); })); }); $record = $reader->read(…); $reader->close(); ``` Acknowledgements ================ [](#acknowledgements) Large parts of this package would not have been possible without studying the source of [Pica::Record](http://search.cpan.org/dist/PICA-Record/), an open source Perl library for handling Pica+ records by Jakob Voß, and the practical knowledge of our library’s catalogers. Footnotes ========= [](#footnotes) ### Health Score 33 — LowBetter than 75% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity21 Limited adoption so far Community13 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity66 Established project with proven stability Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 50% of commits — single point of failure How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window. **Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores. **Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. 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