Get XML from a Dynix OPAC
Submitted by Richard Wallis on Mon, 2006-03-13 16:47.
The Dynix Horizon OPAC system (Version 2 or Version 3) can produce an XML version of its pages.
Just by adding the 'GetXML=true' parameter to the URL that you use to access the OPAC.
For example this URL takes you to an item in the University of Chicago Library:
By adding GetXML=true to the end of the URL you get the XML version of the same page thus:
I leave it to your imagination as to what you can do by building on this.
re: Get XML from a Dynix OPAC
Sadly it sounds like SirsiDynix have gotten rid of the XML output from the latest release of their OPAC (HIP 4) ...or, at least, made it much harder for their customers to get at the XML.
This is a huge shame as both our REST and OpenSearch implementations are built on top of the XML output. Without the XML, I'll need to do everything via direct SQL queries on the main database.
Hopefully the company will be able to redeem itself with the promised API layer that comes with the next major release of their LMS/ILS product.
I hope for your sake that
I hope for your sake that this is only a worrying rumour.
It would be sad to see all that work disappear from the face of the Huddersfield OPAC.
:-{
Richard.
At the risk of sounding like
At the risk of sounding like C.J. - "there's more than one way to skin a pig"!
It sounds like the ability to hack the underlying stylesheets is still there, and that's what I've used for the majority of tweaks to our OPAC.
However, I know a lot of people have done cool things using the XML output and it would be shame if they had to revert to using screen scraping instead.
Dave