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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 >