+typedef struct yaz_marc_t_ *yaz_marc_t;
+
+/* create handler */
+YAZ_EXPORT yaz_marc_t yaz_marc_create(void);
+/* destroy */
+YAZ_EXPORT void yaz_marc_destroy(yaz_marc_t mt);
+
+/* set XML mode YAZ_MARC_LINE, YAZ_MARC_SIMPLEXML, ... */
+YAZ_EXPORT void yaz_marc_xml(yaz_marc_t mt, int xmlmode);
+#define YAZ_MARC_LINE 0
+#define YAZ_MARC_SIMPLEXML 1
+#define YAZ_MARC_OAIMARC 2
+#define YAZ_MARC_MARCXML 3
+#define YAZ_MARC_ISO2709 4
+
+/* supply iconv handle for character set conversion .. */
+YAZ_EXPORT void yaz_marc_iconv(yaz_marc_t mt, yaz_iconv_t cd);
+
+/* set debug level, 0=none, 1=more, 2=even more, .. */
+YAZ_EXPORT void yaz_marc_debug(yaz_marc_t mt, int level);
+
+/* decode MARC in buf of size bsize. Returns >0 on success; <=0 on failure.
+ On success, result in *result with size *rsize. */
+YAZ_EXPORT int yaz_marc_decode_buf (yaz_marc_t mt, const char *buf, int bsize,
+ char **result, int *rsize);
+
+/* decode MARC in buf of size bsize. Returns >0 on success; <=0 on failure.
+ On success, result in WRBUF */
+YAZ_EXPORT int yaz_marc_decode_wrbuf (yaz_marc_t mt, const char *buf,
+ int bsize, WRBUF wrbuf);
+
+/* old functions (depricated) */