Hi Matt,

Michael Kays' XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 is a great reference and is available
as an eBook. Mulberry Technologies has some quick reference guides [1] that
might be helpful.

Cheers,
Bridger

<doc:metadata>
    <doc:element name="example"> <!-- ignored! -->
    <doc:element name="dc">
        <doc:element name="blahBlahBlah"> <!-- ignored! -->
        <doc:element name="type">
            <doc:element>
                <doc:element>
                    <doc:field name="value"> <!-- get the value of this
element -->

[1] http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/



On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Sherman <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> 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
>