Thanks so much, Matt! This is extremely helpful. We're using MSXML, too, for
creating and viewing finding aids in house, but we had to download and
install it, and for the non-computer types among us, that proved hard to do.
We're thinking we should probably present HTML files we've converted through
XT and store on our server to users who don't yet have a recent version of
Internet Explorer -- at least for the next six months or so. Are you having
any problems with users not being able to view your finding aids via MSXML?
Maybe we're more concerned about this than necessary.

Many thanks.

Marsha Maguire
Univ. of Washington, Seattle

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hillyard, Matthew" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: Fielded searching and display of encoded finding aids?


> Please take a look at the Access to Archives website at
> http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk
>
> Content is stored as XML EAD.
> Indexing, searching and retrieval is via Ixiasoft's TEXTMLserver and an
ASP
> application.
> Presentation as HTML is driven on-the-fly via 3 XSLT stylesheets, ie.
"Hits
> in Context" (default view), "Full Text" (optional) and "Table of Contents"
> (optional).
> The XSL engine used is Microsft's MSXSL.
>
> Matt Hillyard
> Access to Archives,
> Public Record Office,
> London
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Marsha Maguire[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Reply To:     Encoded Archival Description List
> > Sent:         14 February 2002 22:46
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      Fielded searching and display of encoded finding aids?
> >
> > Greetings, all,
> >
> > Is anyone on the list using a search engine like Inktomi to provide
access
> > to encoded finding aids? Inktomi has some default search fields that can
> > be
> > mapped to selected elements in an EAD-encoded finding aid, and we'd like
> > to
> > use this feature to enhance retrieval (Inktomi is the search engine for
> > our
> > campus Web site). But searching would have to be done against the XML
> > finding aid files, while we feel display of retrieved documents should
be
> > in
> > HTML (until more browsers incorporate XML display tools like MSXML).
Does
> > anyone have experience in setting up searches on XML docs while
delivering
> > retrieved docs in HTML?
> >
> > Many thanks.
> >
> > Marsha Maguire
> > Manuscripts and Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
> > University of Washington Libraries
> > P.O. Box 352900
> > Seattle, WA 98195-2900
> > (206) 543-1879; fax (206) 543-1931
> > email: [log in to unmask]
> >
>
>
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