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Hi Richard Well spotted, I

ckeene — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:09:57 +0000

Hi Richard

Well spotted, I think you are right.

We can see this selecting what comes after 'urn:isbn' for each dc:identifier element, and *if* it is not the first isbn, stick a comma in front of it first.

XSLT seems like a very cool way of presenting data.

Chris Keene - University of Sussex.
PS the lack of a pre tag in the commenting system on TDN makes it very difficult to copy code info to this message box!

Cenote XSLT question

richardfrancis — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:18:22 +0000

I'm no expert, but I think the magic is done a bit lower down in the xslt (RenderItemDetails) specifically;

xsl:template match="dc:identifier" xsl:variable name="isbn" select="substring-after(.,'urn:isbn:')" / xsl:if test="position() > 1" xsl:text, /xsl:text /xsl:if xsl:value-of select="$isbn" / /xsl:template

I hope this helps.

Richard Francis
Support, Talis

Cenote XSLT question

ckeene — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:17:49 +0000

Have a question about one of the XSLT stylesheets used in Cenote. Due fully to my limited knowledge in this area and should probably be better addressed to a xslt-newbie forum.

Anyway...

For item details, you have the following code for Author(s)
<td class="value author"> <xsl:variable name="author" select="/rdf:RDF/rss:item/dc:creator[1]" /> <xsl:value-of select="$author" /> <xsl:for-each select="/rdf:RDF/rss:item/dc:creator[position() > 1]"> & <xsl:value-of select="text()" /> </xsl:for-each> </td>

This is fine, produce a table cell, print out the first author name, and for any additional names produce an & and then their name. Good.

But here is the code for listing the ISBNs:


<td class="value isbn">

<xsl:apply-templates select="/rdf:RDF/rss:item/dc:identifier[starts-with(text(), 'urn:isbn:')]" />

</td>

This produces output such as "9781858983608, 1858983606". But I don't see how it is doing this. I thought there might be some sort of template or specification elsewhere in the file, or in another referenced file, but couldn't see one. I can see it selects 'dc:identifier' and only those that start 'urn:isbn' but can't see how it actually *removes* the preceding urn:isbn, and adds commas between each one. How does this code produce a nice list?

Cheers!

Chris Keene - University of Sussex.

Project Cenote code released as Open Source

Paul Miller — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:20:52 +0000

As announced during last week's Talis Platform webinar, the code behind Talis' Project Cenote is being released here on the TDN, licensed under the GNU General Public Licence.