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New stylesheets for the EAD Cookbook are being written for compatibility with EAD 2002. The structure of the new stylesheets is quite different from that of the existing ones in several respects. One of the principal changes will be to separate out the part of the stylesheet that deals with the dsc from the base stylesheet that handles the "high-level" elements. Six different options will be available for the dsc. One change that is relevant to Leah's question is that in one option, the column headings to which she refers, will be set by the value of the TYPE attribute in the container elements rather than being of a fixed content such as "Box" or "Folder". This will allow the display to change whenever the container type changes as well as making them more generic as to the type of the container. I suppose that it would be possible to replace the fixed display in the existing stylesheets. Try replacing ones that look this <xsl:template name="showbox-c02-boxplusfolder"> <tr> <td> <b><font size="-1"> <xsl:text>Box</xsl:text></font></b> </td> <td><b><font size="-1"> <xsl:text>Folder</xsl:text> </font></b></td> </tr> <tr> With this <xsl:template name="showbox-c02-boxplusfolder"> <tr> <td> <b><font size="-1"> <xsl:value-of select="container[1]/@type"/> </td> <td><b><font size="-1"> <xsl:value-of select="container[2]/@type"/> </font></b></td> </tr> <tr> The new stylesheets should be easier to edit and will be considerably more compact and generic. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Leah Prescott [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 5:03 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: volumes I have edited one of the cookbook .xsl stylesheets to meet our needs, but I am faced with one last change that I have not yet had success with. We have a number of collections that include series of volumes (such as logbooks, or account books, etc.) that are not in boxes and so we would like to have the locator be "volume" instead of "box" and "folder". I tried copying the section of the stylesheet for box-folder combinations where I replaced every instance of "box-folder" with "volume" hoping that that might work. I have an xml document which has a series with box and folder numbers and then a series of volumes where the container element is coded as "volume" (which according to the tag library is legal). Does the template for volumes need to come before the box and folder templates, or does this not make a difference? If anyone has done this or something like this successfully, I would be very grateful to not have to reinvent the wheel, even if it is passing up a valuable learning experience :) Thanks, Leah Prescott Manuscripts and Archives Librarian Collections Information Technology Coordinator MYSTIC SEAPORT The Museum of America and the Sea G.W. Blunt White Library 75 Greenmanville Avenue PO Box 6000 Mystic CT 06355-0990 USA tel: 860.572.0711 x5263 fax: 860.572.5394 [log in to unmask] http://www.mysticseaport.org