[Metadatalibrarians] Namespace problems

[Greta de Groat]

Hello again

I've made progress on my namespace issues on my PastPerfect>MODs  
stylesheet.  I think the MODS elements finally validated because i got  
a series of error messages that i was able to correct.  I'm using the  
validator at:
http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/
The last error message i haven't been able to clear seems to be  
another namespace problem--this time oai:record isn't recognized.   
I've got a bunch of namespaces and schemas declared in the <xsl>  
element at the top of the stylesheet.  The validated files are:
  	File name	Charsets	Source
1	SOURCECODE	UTF-8	XML declaration
2	http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd	UTF-8	XML declaration
3	http://www.w3.org/2001/xml.xsd	UTF-8	Fallback
4	http://www.loc.gov/standards/xlink.xsd	UTF-8	XML declaration

and the error message is:
Line	File name:	Nonexistent
3	Column:	17
  	Error:	Invalid content found starting with element 'oai:record'.  
One of '{"http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3":mods}' is expected.
  	Error Position:	<oai:record>

That's the only oai element i have in the stylesheet, and it looks  
like it's not getting recognized.  I tried putting it in the xsl  
element, i tried putting it inside the <oai:record> element, and i  
tried both places (which is the way it is at the moment), but nothing  
seems to work.  It shows up as one of the namespaces in the  
modsCollection element (i'm not sure why they output there, but the  
rest seem to work, so i guess that's ok?).  The book i'm consulting  
seems to say all the namespaces should be in the xsl element at the  
top as long as i declare which namespace each element belongs to, so  
i'm not sure what's going wrong here.  Any hints?

thanks so much, i'm clearly out of my depth here and appreciate all  
the help i can get.

greta de groat
Stanford University Libraries