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Marsha,

    MarcEdit is a wonderful tool as Michele recommends.

    However, if you have a batch of MARC records that have to be converted
into components and latter bundled together in a single EAD instance,
MarcEdit may not be your simplest solution.

   Unless it has recently changed, the software will convert each of your
MARC records into a full EAD instance with an <eadheader> and all with the
data going into <archdesc> rather than say a <c02>.

  Are your MARC records in XML in a single file with each wrapped in a MARC
<record> tag or as separate XML files?



Michael Fox

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Michele R Combs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  You might start by downloading MarcEdit.  It comes with a number of XSL
> templates for converting MARCXML to various things, including EAD.  You
> could start with one of those and tweak to suit your needs; also then you’d
> have a bunch of other scripts to look at as reference. See
> http://people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/index.php .****
>
> ** **
>
> As far as forums go, this here EAD list is pretty darn good :)   There is
> also the xsl email list .  Its members have a range of expertise from
> beginner to XSL Deity (I think that’s the correct technical term…)  See
> http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/ .****
>
> ** **
>
> As for training, I don’t know where you’re located but MARAC is I think
> planning an XSL workshop for their fall conference in Richmond, VA.  See
> http://www.marac.info/ .   The w3c XSL tutorial is pretty good for the
> very basics, see http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/ .  Its examples are mostly
> HTML, but really it doesn’t matter what you’re outputting, the rules and
> the logic are the same.****
>
> ** **
>
> Michele****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Encoded Archival Description List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On
> Behalf Of *Marsha Maguire
> *Sent:* Monday, July 02, 2012 1:52 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Learning XSLT for simple EAD transformations?****
>
> ** **
>
> Hello, all,
>
> I'm a non-programmer who needs to use XSLT to do some conversions of
> selected fields in a batch of saved MARCXML records to EAD inventory
> descriptions (usually c02-level descriptions).. I've been trying to teach
> myself *basic* XSLT (using Jeni Tennison's Beginning XSLT book and a few
> websites), but most basic XSLT teaching resources understandably focus on
> converting XML to HTML. A lot of the books and online XSLT resources are
> out of date, too, or they're intended for programmers and way over my head
> (I have no idea how to use variables and parameters, but I can probably
> handle simple "if" and "choose" instructions).
>
> I'm also trying to convert to simple EAD inventory descriptions a batch of
> files that were imported from a local database system as complex XML files
> with a very deep hierarchical structure. For these, I just need to pull out
> a little data, but of course, the data I need is many levels deep. Can
> anyone recommend basic and reasonably current forums or other websites that
> offer assistance with basic XSLT? I don't need to produce elegant, robust
> XSLT -- I'd be thrilled to be able to come up with clunky templates or
> for-each/value-of instructions that did the job -- I could strive for
> elegance later! I'd love to attend an SAA XSLT workshop but haven't been
> able to make it to any of them. Have any online or in-print instructional
> tools from those or any other reasonably pertinent workshops become
> available?
>
> Is anyone else in the same boat -- are there other non-programmers out
> there who need to do some basic XML-to-EAD/XML conversions?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Marsha Maguire
> [log in to unmask]
>
> ****
>



-- 
Michael Fox