Hi Donald,

My coworker alerted me to your issue with the MODS to DC XSLT. I think the problem here might be that this stylesheet assumes you’re always using @point with dateCreated and dateIssued by only applying templates to the children that have a point="start" attribute. I tested the stylesheet as is and it outputs dates with start and end appropriately, but doesn't output dates without a point attribute.

 

Seems like under the <“xsl:template match=”mods:originInfo”> section you’ll want to add in <xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(@point)]"/> and that should do the trick.

However, that won't pick up any cases if you happened to encode a date with a point="end" that doesn't have a corresponding point="start".

When trying your code, my output with start and end dates ended up as "18091864" instead of "1809-1864".

Michelle Fredette

Metadata Resident

Amherst College