Hi Matt,

The W3C Recommendation for XPath has some good explanation and examples for abbreviated XPath syntax here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-30/#abbrev 

Katie

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:39 AM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT

Hi Code4Lib folks,

I have a question for those of you who have worked with OAI-PMH.  I am currently editing our DSpace OAI crosswalk to include a few custom metadata field that exist in our repository for publication information and port them into a more standard format.  The problem I am running into is the select statements they use are not the typical XPath statements I am used to.  For example:

<xsl:for-each
select="doc:metadata/doc:element[@name='dc']/doc:element[@name='type']/doc:element/doc:element/doc:field[@name='value']">
<dc:type><xsl:value-of select="." /></dc:type> </xsl:for-each>

I know what the "." does, but the other select statement is a bit foreign to me.  So my question is, does anyone know of some reference material that can help me make sense of this select?  I need to understand what it is doing so I can make my own.  Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Matt Sherman