I've worked on an XSL:FO stylesheet that is active at the EAD PDF
Generator: http://eadpdfgen.library.oregonstate.edu
There's an example PDF and a link to see/download the stylesheet. It was
developed for OSU but has been somewhat generalized. It still needs some
work, and I don't work on it often, but it should handle most finding
aid sections fairly well. Any feedback on how it does with your finding
aids would be interesting.
It's a fairly basic setup, a Python script calls Saxon first and then
XEP (a pretty old version now, 3.7 I think). I've been happy with XEP
but haven't yet looked at anything recent. I'd like to get this working
with FOP as well someday.
Ryan Wick
Information Technology Consultant
Special Collections - OSU Libraries
Oregon State University
541-737-2075
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http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/specialcollections
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> Subject: EAD 2002 to XSL:FO stylesheet
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> I was pleased to happen upon the page below that contained an
> XSL-FO stylesheet for EAD2002 documents.
> http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ead/stylesheets.html
>
> I plan to try it as soon as possible, but if others have had
> experience with it or similar stylesheets, I'd be curious to
> hear reports.
> I'd especially like to hear what rendering software people
> are using.
> I've used XEP in the past but, as I remember, a server
> version was extremely expensive -- even with the educational
> discount. Is Apache FOP sufficient these days? Antenna House
> is the other option I've most heard about.
>
> We work in a Solaris environment, by the way.
>
> Best Regards,
> Brian
>
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> Brian Sheppard
> University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center
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