Hi Josh,

Before you start coding:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17106/how-to-generate-sample-xml-documen
ts-from-their-dtd-or-xsd suggests that Eclipse can generate XML from an
DTD or XSD file. First try with the EAC XSD shows I need to try other
options, but it's promising.

(It's still an interesting problem to try to tackle yourself, of course.)

Ben

On 09-12-13 17:59, "Joshua Welker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>It's hard-coded to generate the specific elements. But your way sounds a
>lot
>cleaner, so I might try to do that instead :) It will be more difficult
>initially but much easier once I start implementing other metadata
>formats.
>
>Josh Welker
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Ben
>Companjen
>Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:52 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
>
>Cool!
>My first thought on this topic was: give the program an XML schema, and
>generate possible documents with the correct datatypes etc. (Something
>like
>that must exist somewhere, right?) Does it happen to work anything like
>that, or is it hardcoded to generate these specific elements?
>
>Ben
>
>On 09-12-13 17:27, "Joshua Welker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Challenge accepted.
>>
>>http://library.ucmo.edu/dev/metadata-generator.php
>>
>>Obviously in the prototype phase, but it works. Only MODS is available
>>for now, and you can only select top-level elements (all child elements
>>of the top-level selections will be auto-generated). I will try to
>>expand it to more than just MODS. Admittedly, I know very little about
>>METS, so I will need some assistance if I am going to make one of those.
>>
>>I'll eventually host this somewhere else once it's done, so don't
>>bookmark it.
>>
>>Josh Welker
>>Information Technology Librarian
>>James C. Kirkpatrick Library
>>University of Central Missouri
>>Warrensburg, MO 64093
>>JCKL 2260
>>660.543.8022
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>>Kevin S. Clarke
>>Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 12:26 PM
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
>>
>>When I first read this, I was imagining not having to give it your
>>metadata but native support for most of our commonly used metadata
>>records... so the interface is: "Give me 100 MODS records" and it spits
>>that out... You could get fancy and say, "Give me X number of METS
>>records that wrap TIFFs and JPGs and that uses MODS, etc."  That's not
>>as trivial as hooking into an lorem ipsum machine, but it'd be pretty
>>cool, imho.
>>
>>Kevin
>>
>>
>>On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. <
>>[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I asked this on Google Plus earlier today, but I figured I'd
>>> better take this question here: my brain is trying to tell me that
>>> there's a service or app that makes "fake" metadata, kind of like
>>> "Lorem Ipsum" but you feed it your fields and it gives you nonsense
>>> metadata back. But, it looks right enough for testing. Yesterday, I
>>> had to make up about 50 rows of fake metadata to test some code that
>>> handles paging in a UI, and I had to make it all up by hand. This
>>> hurts my soul. Someone please tell me such a service exists, and link
>>> me to it, so I never have to do this again. Or else, I may just make
>>> such a service, to save us all. But I don't want to go coding some
>>> new service if it already exists, because that sort of thing is for
>>> chumps.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> HARDY POTTINGER <[log in to unmask]> University of Missouri
>>> Library Systems http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/
>>> https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/
>>> "Making things that are beautiful is real fun." --Lou Reed
>>>