# Pile of utilty methods used accross applications.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
my $cache_client = "OpenSRF::Utils::Cache";
-my $MARC_NAMESPACE = 'http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim';
+use constant MARC_NAMESPACE => 'http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim';
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# on sucess, returns the created session, on failure throws ERROR exception
sub marc_xml_to_doc {
my ($class, $xml) = @_;
my $marc_doc = XML::LibXML->new->parse_string($xml);
- $marc_doc->documentElement->setNamespace($MARC_NAMESPACE, 'marc', 1);
- $marc_doc->documentElement->setNamespace($MARC_NAMESPACE);
+ $marc_doc->documentElement->setNamespace(MARC_NAMESPACE, 'marc', 1);
+ $marc_doc->documentElement->setNamespace(MARC_NAMESPACE);
return $marc_doc;
}