[Metadatalibrarians] Metadatalibrarians Digest, Vol 51, Issue 1

[Greta de Groat]

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>    1. Re: Namespace problems (Clay Redding)
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> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:58:35 -0400
> From: Clay Redding <clay at monarchos.com>
> Subject: Re: [Metadatalibrarians] Namespace problems
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> Hi Greta,
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> I think your namespace declarations are fine, as long as you've
> declared the OAI namespace in the xsl:stylesheet element.  You can
> generally put it anywhere, but I tend to declare my namespaces
> globally at the root xsl:stylesheet element.
>
> It appears that the error the validator is throwing says that
> <oai:record> is appearing as the first child in the modsCollection
> wrapper, which will result in an invalid instance, since <mods> is
> the only child allowed under <modsCollection>.  Typically, the
> correct structure is to have <oai:record>, and then your MODS
> instance within that.
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> If you'd like, feel free to send along your XML and XSL and we can
> help you troubleshoot.
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> Clay
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> On Aug 30, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Greta de Groat wrote:
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>> 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
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