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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.

Holdings Store

Richard Wallis — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:50:15 +0100

Hi Phil & Michael,

Being a 'concept-car' Cenote is excellent at both demonstrating possibilities and highlighting the fact that it is not a production system. Although the stores it uses are hosted in the live Platform, the processes used to maintain the data in those stores are snapshots for demonstration purposes. The consequences of this are being highlighted by your comments in this thread.

There is work underway to build the processes for the management of data flows into and between data stores in a way that will benefit all the applications that load data in to and consume the services provided by Platform stores.

Once these processes are in place, there will be an improvement in the consistence and currency of holdings data.

Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist - Talis

MIA or AWOL?

michael stead — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:09:26 +0100

I've noticed this as well.

See these Cenote records with no Bolton holdings data: Mind Gym (although the record seems wrong anyway); a graphic novel; another graphic novel; and a seminal text on feline location.

Yet they're definitely in Prism: here; here; here; and here. I've seen copies of each of these books (and I heartily recommend the last one), so I know they exist. What's more, we've had them a while so it's not just a case of our holdings data in Source/Bigfoot lagging too far behind reality.

Any ideas?

Michael Stead
e-Resources Librarian
Bolton Libraries

Holdings missing?

Fulup — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:05:25 +0100

Dear Richard,
This item is in De Montfort University's stock, so perhaps we should talk about whether you are able to collect updates on a regular basis from us.

Regards,
Phil Adams

Not held in contributing libraries

Richard Wallis — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:33:38 +0100

Hi Phil,

The reason you are getting zero results is that none of the contributing UK Libraries have registered as having stock, when the store was created.

Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist - Talis

Holding store

Fulup — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:51:28 +0100

I was expecting more positive results for a URL like:

http://api.talis.com/stores/holdings/items?query=0192853589&max=10&offset=0&sort=&xsl=&content-type=

Am I looking in the right place/

Regards,
Phil Adams

Possibly a bug

Ian Davis — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:06:40 +0100

Hi Phil,

That looks like a small bug in that service. We recently changed the URLs of some services to remove the /bf part. All the services should redirect to the new URLs but it looks like there's a problem with this one. If you try the following:

http://api.talis.com/stores/holdings/services/augment?data-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.talis.com%2Fbf%2Fstores%2Fukbib%2Fitems%3Fquery%3Domoo%26offset%3D0

Then it should work.

Note I removed the /bf from the service URL. Not all the documentation has caught up unfortunately.

I'll file this as a bug to be fixed.

Thanks for tracking this down.

Ian

Error message

Fulup — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:25:31 +0100

I tried this and came up with a request;
http://api.talis.com/bf/stores/holdings/services/augment?data-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.talis.com%2Fbf%2Fstores%2Fukbib%2Fitems%3Fquery%3Domoo%26offset%3D0

This returns an error message:
data-uri parameter invalid http%3A%2F%2Fapi.talis.com%2Fbf%2Fstores%2Fukbib%2Fitems%3Fquery%3Domoo%26offset%3D0

Am I missing something?

Regards,
Phil Adams

Avi file seems to be out of sync :-/

Banta — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:59:57 +0100

Great Presentation, feel like building my own catalog now.

- The AVI video file appears to be out of sync the last few minutes though...

Updated Version!

Richard Wallis — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:58:26 +0000

You can now select your own subset of libraries, in addition to seeing all libraries that hold a copy.
Amazon@Libraries has now become a personalised library lookup tool for Amazon.co.uk.

Richard Wallis
Technology Evangelist - Talis

Re: tempdb full

Chris Langham — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:34:59 +0100

Hello Jim,

Thanks for your reply. I have already got Talis Support to expand tempdb.

All the best

Chris

Re: tempdb full

Jim Prince — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:48:05 +0100

Hi Chris,

1. Yes, tempdb is cleared down when Sybase is restarted. So since it's the MIS Server you can simply stop and start Sybase.

2. Tempdb can be expanded (it should be at least 200mb). You can use sp_helpdb to check. If it needs to be bigger I would suggest you log a call with Client Services.

Can I also suggest you direct future posts to the appropriate section of the Discussion Area.

Thanks,

Jim

tempdb full

Chris Langham — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:07:34 +0100

Hello All,

Over the past couple of weeks – I’ve had tempdb fill up twice on MIS. The only way I know to fix this problem is to load a backup onto MIS.

1. Is there a way of clearing down tempdb without restoring from backup?
2. Alternatively can tempdb be expanded?

I’ve been running some hefty SQLs through the WORK_SUBFIELD or the LOAN tables and I’m sure that these have filled up tempdb. Consequently the contents of this database aren’t needed.

Thanks

Chris