Jordan,

To elaborate on what Michael Fox wrote, you need to answer several
questions before 'getting it to work'. Are you linking to digital
objects at the component level? If so, will you encode the <dao> in
the <did> or after the <did>? Will you be linking to digital objects
elsewhere in the collection, say as an illustration in your
<bioghist>? Will you be using the <dao> element or will you use the
<daogrp> element as the RLG best practice guidelines recommend? What
kind of link are you creating, a link that inserts an image into the
finding aid, a text link to the image, or a thumbnail image that
links to a larger version? Once you nail down exactly what the
function of your <dao>s will be, then you'll be able to identify how
best to encode them and then to articulate how exactly your
stylesheet needs to treat them. You can find a good model for
<daogrp> encoding in the RLG BPGs
(http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=450), as well as in the NWDA
BPGs (http://nwda.wsulibs.wsu.edu/intro.htm) and the NC EAD BPGs
(http://www.ncecho.org/ncead/ead2002.htm). There are variations to
each, but all recommend using <daogrp> rather than <dao>, in order to
standardize practice.

Good luck,

Mike Rush

At 04:35 PM 3/2/2006, you wrote:
>I would like to link to digital objects from the collection and keep
>it simple. So, are there examples somewhere on the web? I found
>discussion about this issue on the archives of the EAD listserv, but
>no definite answers. I also found a lot of examples for tagging the
>information in the <dsc> and within containers, but not much on
>getting it to work.
>Thanks,
>Jordan Patty
>
>Fox, Michael wrote:
>
>>Certainly but first you will have to ask yourself yourself several
>>questions. Two spring to mind: where am I going to put the doa
>>elements (nested within which elements) and do I want to them to
>>always appear the same way, i.e. centered, right or left, with
>>leading and/or trailing space?
>>
>>Depending on the answers to those two questions, crafting a
>>template (rule) for a sytlesheet to display a doa is simple or
>>moderately complex.
>>
>>Michael Fox
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
>>Jordan Patty
>>Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:30 AM
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>>Subject: Using <dao>
>>
>>
>>Is there some kind of script that should be placed in the xsl for
>>the dao to work?
>
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