Hello - This is an issue we've just begun to address.  We are developing
stylesheets to transform the EAD into Word documents.

Word 2003 makes this very easy by offering a 'transform' facility when
saving XML files.  At the moment we're just using a few fields from
top-level records so the stylesheet is very basic. The XML looks a bit
daunting at first but it's not hard to tweak after a bit of trial and
error.

Although this method looks very promising, we've only used small
datasets so far.  I don't know how Word performs if asked to process
large EAD files.

Claire


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Claire Emery
Assistant Computing Officer
Manuscripts and Special Collections
Level 1, Hallward Library
University of Nottingham
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Nottingham
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> Subject: Generating hard copy from EAD
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> Hello all --
> 
> Wondering whether anyone would care to share their method of getting
> hard copy from EAD.  A style sheet within your EAD authoring software
> that formats for printing?  An XSLT style sheet that produces HTML
> formatted to print nicely?  or perhaps outputs PDF?  or Word? 
>  Something
> daringly new and different that no one else has thought of?  (BTW,
> thanks to Susan Hamburger at Penn State for explaining her NoteTab Pro
> approach to me a couple of weeks ago!)
> 
> Any and all information is welcome.  Thanks in advance --
> 
> Michele
> 
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