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
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>