Could you pass along one of your METS, either to me or to the list.
I'll take a look and see if I can figure out what's going on.

-- Brian

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|From: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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|Behalf Of Cory Nimer
|Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:44 PM
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|Subject: [METS] Errors from EAD document embedded in METS
|
|Over the past week I have been looking at possibilities of embedding an
|EAD document using the new schema in a METS document for descriptive
|metadata, but doing so seems to generate errors with the EAD schema
|itself. I have validated the EAD document outside of the METS instance
|in Oxygen without getting any errors, and have validated the EAD schema
|without problems, but the errors still keep popping up.
|
|There are four types of errors presented. The first two come together
|and take the form:
|
|SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd
|Location: 2723:41
|Description: src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'xlink:type1' to a(n)
|'attribute group' component.
|URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#src-resolve
|
|SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd
|Location: 2723:41
|Description: s4s-elt-must-match.1: The content of 'extendedType' must
|match (annotation?, ((attribute | attributeGroup)*, anyAttribute?)). A
|problem was found starting at: attributeGroup.
|
|The second pairs take the form:
|
|SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd
|Location: 2796:41
|Description: src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'xlink:type4' to a(n)
|'attribute group' component.
|URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#src-resolve
|
|SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd
|Location: 2796:41
|Description: s4s-elt-invalid-content.1: The content of 'arc' is
invalid.
|Element 'attributeGroup' is invalid, misplaced, or occurs too often.
|
|Is there anyone working with EAD documents embedded in an xmlData tag
|who might know what is going on with this? Is it just because of the
|XLink references in the EAD schema? And should I worry about the
|validation errors or not?
|
|I am new to METS and would appreciate any guidance anyone could give.
|
|Thank you,
|
|Cory Nimer
|Manuscripts Cataloger/Metadata Specialist
|Brigham Young University
|1108 HBLL
|(801) 422-6091