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Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  Due to my (and institution's) lack of
PERL and XSLT coding skills, I'll explore the find/replace options.  I tried
do just that in Oxygen, but it was giving me sass and not finding anything.
 Probably because what I was seeking was inside an element.  We use
Dreamweaver for our website, so I'll start there.

Thanks again!

Nathan

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Elizabeth Perkes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> If you have access to an HTML tool such as Dreamweaver, you can apply
> search and replace commands to multiple documents at once (whole folders).
>
> Elizabeth Perkes
> Electronic Records Archivist
> Utah State Archives
> 346 South Rio Grande
> Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1106
> 801-531-3852
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>
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>
> >>> Michele R Combs <[log in to unmask]> 4/14/10 10:22 AM >>>
> A good perl scripter could write you something that would do it, or you
> could write an XSL style sheet that removes the "fake" containers and
> adjusts the coding for their children.
>
> Easiest of all, just do a search/replace in Notepad or some other text
> editor => replace all fake <c03...>'s with nothing, replace the now-orphaned
> </c03>s with nothing, then replace all c04's with c03's).
>
> Of course if you have thousands of files that won't be much fun...
>
> Michele
>
> From: Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Nathan Tallman
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:38 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Promoting Container Levels
>
> As far as I know, there isn't an easy way to do this.  But it never hurts
> to ask, right?
>
> Past encoding practices at my institution inserted a false c0 layer in EAD
> finding aids.  For example,
>
> My understanding correct EAD encoding:
>
>  *   c1 - Series
>  *   c2 - Subseries
>  *   c3 - File
> OR
>
>  *   c1 - Series
>  *   c2 - File
>
> Past practices at my institution:
>
>  *   c1 - Series
>  *   c2 - Subseries
>  *   c3 - False layer to enclose files
>  *   c4 - File
> OR
>
>  *   c1 - Series
>  *   c2 - False layer
>  *   c3 - File
>
> Other than hand-coding, is there a way to promote the c4s to c3s and
> eliminate the false level?  I haven't used Archivist Toolkit or many other
> collection management software packages that might have this functionality.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nathan Tallman
> Associate Archivist
> American Jewish Archives
>