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 > -- -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky