I guess it is the "doc:element/doc:element/doc:field" thing that is mostly
what it throwing me.


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Dunn, Katie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Matthew Sherman
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>