Many of our vendors upload MARC files to an FTP server and the files are processed by our import profiles. When there are line breaks in the files (usually in a note field that is copied into the MARC from another source), the file is treated as invalid MARC. This error is identified after all the files for that profile have been combined, so the import job kicks out valid MARC files in addition to the ones containing errors. Since these are being uploaded by the vendor, we often don't notice that there is a problem until a staff member is looking to receive and pay for the materials.

I would like to suggest that Alma do some normalization to drop paragraph and line breaks from files (or replace them with spaces) prior to compiling the file into XML.