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Transforming EAD

July 1st, 2011 by Pete Johnston

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3 Responses to “Transforming EAD”

  1. Frédéric D says:
    March 11, 2012 at 6:21 pm

    I’m trying to use your XSL with EAD XML files, but I get error message from xsltproc command when I use it. What XSLT processor do you use/recommand?

  2. Avatar of Pete Johnston Pete Johnston says:
    March 13, 2012 at 10:58 am

    Hi Frédéric,

    I’ve been using the Saxon XSLT processor (Home Edition)

    http://saxon.sourceforge.net/#F9.4HE

    I haven’t tried other XSLT engines, but it does require a processor that supports XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0

  3. Avatar of Pete Johnston Pete Johnston says:
    March 13, 2012 at 1:38 pm

    Another issue that may cause problems is that this version of the transform is really designed to process the “style” of EAD used in the Archives Hub – and in the particular subset of docs we processed first. So there are some structural combinations which are valid EAD but may cause this to choke – I think multiple occurrences of unitid & unittitle within a single did may cause problems, for example.

    We’re working on a modified version which might be more “robust”, though EAD allows so much variation, it’s quite difficult to come up with something that works for all cases