Hi Linda,

The MARCXML to MADS XSLT has been updated and uploaded. Please let me know if you have any other issues with it. Apologies for the slow turnaround--we had server/network issues here at LC last week.

< http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slim2MADS.xsl>

Best, Tracy

Tracy Meehleib
Network Development and MARC Standards Office
Library of Congress
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Washington, DC 20540-4402
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Subject: Re: [MODS] MADS XSLT error - Cannot add attributes to an element

Hi Nate,

Thank you :-)!

Linda

On 11/7/18 8:58 PM, Trail, Nate wrote:
> HI, Linda, yes we will fix this. Nate
> -----------------------------------------
> Nate Trail
> Network Development & MARC Standards Office LS/ABA/NDMSO LA308, Mail 
> Stop 4402 Library of Congress Washington DC 20540
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Metadata Object Description Schema List <[log in to unmask]> 
> On Behalf Of Linda Jansova
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2018 3:45 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [MODS] MADS XSLT error - Cannot add attributes to an element
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have recently been working with MARCXML to MADS stylesheet
> (http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slim2MADS.xsl) as this stylesheet has become an integral part of the latest versions of Evergreen ILS and is now used during authority records processing.
>
> I have encountered an error while trying to transform MARCXML 
> genre/form authority records from the National Library of the Czech 
> Republic. An example of such a record is attached. (The 755 field uses 
> zero as the first indicator which is not compliant with MARC specs but 
> even if the indicator is changed to nothing/space, the error remains 
> the same. A non-XML MARC21 version of the record is available from
> https://aleph.nkp.cz/F/?func=direct&doc_number=000131796&local_base=AU
> T.)
>
> To process the file I have used xsltproc (http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/xsltproc.html).
>
> When trying to process the file (xsltproc MARC21slim2MADS.xsl americke_romany.xml > output.xml), the following error message pops up:
>
> "xsl:attribute: Cannot add attributes to an element if children have been already added to the element."
>
> Josh Stompro from the Evergreen ILS community has come up with a simple solution to the issue:
>
> "If I swap lines 1084 and 1085 then the error goes away and both the
> genre(155) and related genre(755) show up in the transformed xml."
>
> For more details and suggestions please see Evergreen ILS main mailing list archives:
>
> http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/2018-No
> vember/015441.html
>
> Do you think this might be a bug in the stylesheet which could be fixed in the official release of the stylesheet (http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slim2MADS.xsl)?
>
> Thank you in advance for considering the issue!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Linda Jansova
> on behalf of the Czech Evergreen community [log in to unmask]
>