I agree with Stuart, post the example here. 

Or if you want more real-time chat there's always #code4lib IRC.

For an XSLT resource, Dave Pawson's site is great: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html

Ryan Wick

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stuart A. Yeates
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 11:46 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

There are a number of experienced xslt'ers here. Post your example to the group so we can all learn.

Cheers
Stuart

On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Matt Sherman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am making a few corrections on an oai_dc.xslt file for our DSpace 
> instance I slightly botched modifying to integrate some custom 
> metadata into a dc.identifier citation in the OAI-PMH harvest.  I need 
> to get proper conditionals so it can display and harvest the metadata 
> correctly and not run when there is no data in those fields.  I have a 
> pretty good idea what I need to do, and if this were like JavaScript 
> or Python I could probably muddle through.  The trouble is that I 
> don't know the conditional syntax for XSLT quite well enough to know 
> what I can do and thus need to do.  Plus the online resources for 
> learning/referencing XSLT for this are a bit shallow for what I need 
> hence asking the group.  So if there is anyone who knows XSLT really 
> well that would be willing to talk with me for a bit to help me work 
> through what I need to get the syntax to work like I want I would 
> appreciate it.  Thanks.
>
> Matt Sherman
>


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