Ok, that makes sense.  While I knew of OAI-PMH this is my first time really
getting my hands dirty with it so I wasn't sure if this exceptionally
detailed formatting was a function of the OAI protocols or a function of
DSpace.  I also extracted a metadata record from DSpace to see how they are
formatting it and this I what I found for the type field:

<dcvalue element="type" qualifier="none" language="">Poster</dcvalue>


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Dunn, Katie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Matt said: "I guess it is the "doc:element/doc:element/doc:field" thing
> that is mostly what it throwing me."
>
> More DSpacey people than I can probably comment more knowledgeably on
> this, but this seems like less of an OAI-PMH thing than a DSpace thing. It
> looks like maybe DSpace stores metadata internally in a generic
> metadata/element/field structure like Bridger showed (with doc namespace):
>
> <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 -->
>
> ...and the select is pulling the information it needs for the <dc:type />
> element in the OAI-PMH output out of the internal DSpace structure.
>
> Katie
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Bridger Dyson-Smith
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:56 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT
>
> 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
> >
>