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+#!perl -T
+
+#use Test::More tests => 39;
+use Test::More qw(no_plan);
+use Equinox::Migration::MARCXMLSampler;
+
+# fails
+eval { my $mp =
+ Equinox::Migration::MARCXMLSampler->new(tagfile => 't/corpus/mdmpmap-00.txt') };
+is ($@, "Argument 'marcfile' must be specified\n", 'no marcfile');
+
+
+# baseline object creation
+my $mp = Equinox::Migration::MARCXMLSampler->new( marcfile => 't/corpus/mdmp-0.txt');
+is(ref $mp, "Equinox::Migration::MARCXMLSampler", "self is self");
+
+# simple, original sample tests inherited from MDMP
+$mp = Equinox::Migration::MARCXMLSampler->new( marcfile => 't/corpus/mdmp-0.txt',
+ mapstring => '999',
+ );
+$mp->parse_records;
+my $sample = $mp->{data}{samp};
+is (defined $sample->{999}, 1);
+is (defined $sample->{999}{x}, 1);
+is ($sample->{999}{x}{value}, 'MYSTERY', 'Should be the first seen value');
+is ($sample->{999}{x}{count}, 7, 'One real in each record, plus 3 synthetic in last rec');
+is ($sample->{999}{x}{rcnt}, 4, 'Occurs in all records');
+is ($sample->{999}{s}{rcnt}, 3, 'Was removed from one record');
+
+my $tags = $mp->{data}{tags};
+is ($tags->{961}, 4);
+is ($tags->{250}, 1);