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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 > > >