Other Downloads

In addition to the application, users have the opportunity to download other content from the MarcEdit downloads page.   Specifically, there are two elements that need to be highlighted.  These items are:

1. MSICleaner
2. XSLT Files

MarcEdit’s Windows-based installation program utilizes the Microsoft Installer (MSI), utilizing the .msi file extension.  MarcEdit utilizes the MSI installer to take advantage of the installation repair features built into the operating system.  And by and large, users will never have a problem with either installing or upgrading the application.  However, when problems do occur, sometimes they can prevent MarcEdit from being uninstalled or updated.  In those rare cases, the MSICleaner can be utilized to manually remove references to the MarcEdit installer from the operating system.  The MSICleaner must be run with administrator permissions, and attempts to make the following changes:

1. Removed references to the MarcEdit’s installer from the registry
2. Attempts to remove MarcEdit’s shared components from the registry
3. Attempts to remove MarcEdit’s shared libraries from the Global Assembly Cache
4. Attempts to unassociate file extensions from the registry

When the program completes, it will provide a status message indicating the success or failure of the process.  If the MSICleaner is able to successfully complete its tasks, the program is essentially “uninstalled” from the operating system.  At this point, it is now safe to re-install MarcEdit.

For users making use of MarcEdit to process non-MARC data, the MarcEdit website provides a handful of custom XSLT libraries that can utilized to convert data from a wide variety of formats.  These transformations are generally created by me (unless otherwise noted) and are offered to anyone that might want to use them.  In MarcEdit, XSLT translations need to be registered into the application before use.  For information on how XSLT transformations are registered into MarcEdit, please see Chapter #: #####.