Known translator issue

lgage
Hello all,
I am trying to grab bibliographical information from a public library catalog to eventually make a master list for children's librarians across the state. I am using the latest version of Firefox, I just downloaded Zotero yesterday, and I believe I am using Windows XP (but it could be Vista). When I try to grab the "blue book" to bring titles from the catalog into my library, I get a "known translator issues" error message. I have only been to grab 4 books, when I have tried to get at least 5 more. I'm wondering why this works for some and not others? This has the potential to be such an amazing tool for librarians, I would really like to get this resolved!
Thanks!
Lauren
The title I was using is I Lost My Tooth in Africa, in http://catalog.oslri.net/search~S1
  • noksagt
    This particular issue isn't listed on that page, but it is the same error that has been reported for the U. Melbourne Library (Innopac-based) catalog:
    https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1677
  • lgage
    Is it something about InnoPac? Mostly I think it's curious that it works for some entries and not others...
  • noksagt
    Yes: the InnoPac translator does not work on certain sites.

    ajlyon's version of the translator works for that catalog:
    http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/Library Catalog (InnoPAC).js

    A modified version of the regexp tweak was accepted in the trunk version of the translator, but the modified xpath/uri construction to get MARC records from the site were not used for some reason. ajlyon's patch still fails on U. Melbourne, so the problem isn't identical, but I haven't looked into that yet. His patch does seem like a good partial fix, but there are a lot of InnoPAC-based sites out there that it should be tested on.
  • ajlyon
    I've committed the fixed translator. It seems that I had committed a version that was missing part of the fix. Thanks to noksagt for pointing out that the committed version was incomplete.

    The updated version should go out some time relatively soon.

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