Hi Jay,
I haven't worked with transforming EAD much, but ran in to the same kind of
problem in transforming METS Profile documents to html.
As far as I could tell the culprit was a namespace declaration.
So with:
<METS_Profile xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/METS_Profile/
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/profile_docs/mets.profile.v1-2.xsd"
xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/METS_Profile/">
The output I got was one giant line of text.
When I removed the last xmlns:
<METS_Profile xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/METS_Profile/
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/profile_docs/mets.profile.v1-2.xsd">
I got the nicely formatted html I wanted.
This worked fine for me (I was transforming very few documents), but it may
be that changing the namespace declaration isn't a good option in other
situations. I also don't know why this worked (since it worked, I stopped
investigating :) and so it could be that there is something inherently
flawed in the approach.
It is a dark art indeed.
Arwen
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On 8/24/07, Mike Ferrando <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Jay,
> I must admit that I do not use Relax NG nor Oxygen.
>
> However, I remember that Michele Combs [log in to unmask] had the same
> problems with Oxygen on this list and resolved it successfully.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mike Ferrando
> Library Technician
> Library of Congress
> Washington, DC
> (202) 707-4454
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jay Moore <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:22:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Transformation ead schema
>
> Mike,
>
>
>
> Thanks for the reply on this. It would have been handy for me to include
> in my initial message the <ead> declaration, indeed. Here's what I have:
>
>
>
> xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9
> http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"
>
> xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9"
>
> xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
>
>
>
> I confess to believing that namespaces are a black art.
>
>
>
> I had also read that Version 2 of the XSL/T style sheet should use Saxon
> 8B or 8SA or higher, but I hadn't acted on it yet. Joseph Greene has been
> lending me a hand offline and told me where in the oXygen style sheet
> debugger where to set the parser. I fixed it, and yet it has not fixed the
> html.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any hints you can offer, Mike.
>
>
>
> Jay Moore
>
> NOAA Project Archivist
>
> The Mariners' Museum Library and Archives
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf
> Of *Mike Ferrando
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:30 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Transformation ead schema
>
>
>
> Jay,
> I would suggest that you check to see if the schema namespace is declared
> in your ead document root node.
>
> <ead xmlns="">
>
> Also, I would update your SAXON to at least 6.5.5 or 8.X.
>
> I know that SAXON 8.X is schema aware, I am not sure about 6.5.5.
>
> Mike Ferrando
> Library Technician
> Library of Congress
> Washington, DC
> (202) 707-4454
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jay Moore <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:00:15 AM
> Subject: Transformation ead schema
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I am attempting to transform a finding aid that uses the EAD schema into
> html. I'm using oXygen 8.2. The transformation engine is, I gather,
> Saxon 6.5.2. The XSL style sheet I am using from the EAD Cookbook – 2002
> edition (the combo, for anyone who knows, is eadcbs1.xsl and the include
> file dsc1.xsl that formats the <dsc>). Oxygen tells me that I have valid
> EAD, and after I fixed a couple of apostrophe errors, that the style sheet
> parses. The finding aid itself is done up through the sub-series level, with
> no file-level information yet. When I tell oXygen to transform the document,
> it does so in a nice html document that has absolutely no formatting in it –
> no paragraphs, no headings, no centering, no nothing. Just a nice
> continuous line of text. At least the EAD tags aren't also displaying – I
> had that trouble earlier!
>
>
>
> As you can see, I'm a pretty raw novice. If anyone has seen this sort of
> thing before, please let me know how I might fix it!
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Jay Moore
>
> NOAA Project Archivist
>
> The Mariners' Museum Library and Archives
>
> [log in to unmask]
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>
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