OK, there's more than one way to skin this kitty (it seems).
* Monica's way, importing text separated with || along with the XSL
example looks to be one pretty good way.
* Stuart's way with a CSS on liner look to be the other pretty good way.
The XSL, with the example, looks pretty straight-forward; I can simply
change the field name and bolt that code on to the end of an existing
file by the look of it. Double vertical bars is simple to type (gotta
think about the users) and is a more-or-less standard way of dealing
with CSV files but they're usually used for multiple entries of the same
information (like multiple authors). But, then, so is embedded new
lines. Hmm.
The CSS looks a lot simpler, but I don't know which CSS or /conf/ file
to stick it in.
A little discussion: I am really leery of modifying source. I know I
must to deal with the custom data required, but, darn it, I just don't
like the idea of modifying source, particularly because I know that 4.0
is coming in December (I'm using 3.2) and that means "remembering the
lies I told so I can tell them again," if you know know what I mean.
I've been at this long enough to know to keep the original and the
changes and use /diff/ and /patch/ to apply them to new versions but I
also know that doesn't always work so well (and I keep only additions in
separate files to I can paste them into a source file in one block with
a text editor). It can rapidly turn into a mess no matter what.
So, I'll always try to opt for simpler is better, Occam's razor and all
that.
I really appreciate the advice and I'm sorry that I'm so new at this
particular body of programming (I've done C programming for 35+ years,
DBMS design, development and engineering for about the same amount of
time, PHP is pretty handy for web pages and HTML actually makes sense,
but there's my limit switches). It's kind of a struggle and I do
appreciate the help.
So, bottom line, which is the better bet? What's going to be the easiest
for the users with the least amount of modification of DSpace source?
Oh, yeah, a pointer to a how-to would be really useful, too.
Thanks,
Thomas
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