Michele,

 

Thank you so much! I’ll definitely be trying this out.

 

Russ

 

 

> Does this mean that I can post online a XML EAD file that has a stylesheet declaration

> and the client browser will present the EAD in html?

 

 

Yep, exactly.  The stylesheet declaration goes right at the top; the simplest version looks like this:

 

     <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="eadcbs6-su1.xsl"?>

 

So the top two lines of your file look something like this:

 

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

     <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="eadcbs6-su1.xsl"?>

     [followed by the DOCTYPE declaration and the rest of file…]

 

If the style sheet is in a different directory from the EAD, change the href accordingly.  One thing to be aware of: if someone does “view source” on the rendered HTML, they’ll see the source XML (the full EAD file), so if you have for example appraisal information that you normally suppress from the HTML output, people will still be able to get at it.

 

Here’s an example http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/marac/xml_files/aaa_template.xml .  Right click > view source and you can see the source EAD with the style file called out at the top.

 

Michele

 

 

Hello all,

 

I never realized by declaring the stylesheets in the XML declaration that FF or IE would apply the stylesheet.  Does this mean that I can post online a XML EAD file that has a stylesheet declaration and the client browser will present the EAD in html?  Can someone give me an example of how to do this?  My XML declarations look like this:

 

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE ead PUBLIC "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN" "/eadcb/shared/ead/ead.dtd">

 

And for the XSL stylesheet, like this:

 

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon" extension-element-prefixes="saxon" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" version="1.1">

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 

<xsl:output encoding="ISO-8859-1" method="html" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" version="1.1" />

 

We also rely heavily on css as well after making the XSL transformation to html.

 

Any examples would greatly helpful.

 

Many thanks,

 

 

Hi Bob – you mean you can open a master document and have it resolve all the subdocuments to display the complete text correctly, in FireFox?  How’d you get that to work?  Would you be willing to share a sample document?

 

Also, do you mean Firefox doesn’t apply your stylesheets at all, or that it errors on them?  I use FF all the time and have had no problem getting it to apply style sheets…

 

Michele