Hello, all,<br><br>I&#39;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&#39;ve been trying to teach myself *basic* XSLT (using Jeni Tennison&#39;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 A lot of the books and online XSLT resources are out of date, too, or they&#39;re intended for programmers and way over my head (I have no idea how to use variables and parameters, but I can probably handle simple &quot;if&quot; and &quot;choose&quot; instructions). <br>
<br>I&#39;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&#39;t need to produce elegant, robust XSLT -- I&#39;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&#39;d love to attend an SAA XSLT workshop but haven&#39;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? <br>
<br>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?<br><br>Many thanks!<br><br>Marsha Maguire<br><a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1207%26L%3DEAD%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D2328%26B%3D--00151759334612207804c3dc73cd%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a><br>
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