Hi John,

I don't know what your level of technical skills are, and if stylesheets are your preferred tool, that's totally fine.  You can probably ignore this.

I would approach this problem a bit differently, mostly because I'm terrible at stylesheets.  I'm guessing that your pbcore documents are going to be more complex than the marc records you want to generate from them.  I would try something like parsing the pbcore xml to extract what fields I want, and then create the marc record from them.  For example, my tool of choice nowadays is Ruby, so I would parse the xml with xpath queries using Nokogiri, gathering the fields I want, do any data transformations as needed, and then shove the fields into a marc record using Ruby-Marc.

Crosswalking with an intermediate schema might do just as well.  I'm just throwing this out as an alternative.  Also, I'm sure there are similar tools in other languages such as Python, Perl, Java, etc.  To each his own...  I only suggest a different strategy to solve the problem.

Hope it helps.

best,

...adam

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On Nov 5, 2012, at 2:15 PM, john passmore wrote:

> Hi,
> Before I start reinventing the wheel, does anyone know of any stylesheets
> out there that convert PBCore 2.0 XML <http://pbcore.org> to MARC
> XML<http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/>?
>
> Thanks!
> John
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