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If you do choose to use XSLT, the Library of Congress has a bunch of XSLTs for MARCXML which will save a tremendous amount of time for you. http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/ Andrew On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jared Camins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear CODE4LIB, > > I think this sort of question would fall under the purview of this list, > but > if there's a better forum for my question, please let me know. I am > cataloging a special collection in MARC (to take advantage of LC copy > cataloging, primarily), but at the end of the project I will be producing a > printed catalog for the owner of the collection. My plan is to use an XSLT > stylesheet to produce the catalog from MARCXML. I already threw together a > stylesheet to produce a brief HTML bibliography of the collection, so I am > confident that this plan would work. We would probably use LaTeX rather > than > HTML for output for the final catalog, since that would make the final > printing easier, not to mention index generation. > > My question is, has anyone done something like this? Any lessons learned > the > hard way, stylesheets I could model ours on, or any other advice? > > Thanks in advance for all your help. > > Regards, > Jared Camins-Esakov > > P.S. I should mention that I am not entirely wed to the idea of using an > XSLT stylesheet. It seems like the path of least resistance, but if anyone > could suggest a better tool, I would be very interested to learn about it. > I > do have a background in programming, so I would be comfortable using > C/Perl/whatever, if there were a good reason to do so. > > -- > Jared Camins-Esakov > Freelance bibliographer and archivist > (cell) +1 (917) 880-7649 > (e-mail) [log in to unmask] > (web) http://www.jaredcamins.com/ >