On Aug 15, 2008, at 10:44 AM, John Preston wrote: >> On Aug 15, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: >> >>> Allowed or not, this sounds risky. If you are overloading the >>> sequence number with a new meaning, this practice is likely to bite >>> you again and again, since the developing stock code won't recognize >>> your second meaning and will take no pains to preserve it. >>> >>> What is it that you need to accomplish? > I need to be able to have a stable reference for a bitstream which > might undergo a number of version updates. I do not expect to save the > earlier versions at this time. > >> Mark is correct about overloading the semantics here. Note, We >> adjusted the behavior behind the dspace 1.5 XMLUI (but not the JSPUI) >> to allow for unsequenced name resolution of the bitstreams. For >> instance: >> >> http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/39126/ >> womenpolicymakers_census_dta.tab >> http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/39126/ >> womenpolicymakers_census_dta.tab?sequence=3 >> http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/39126/3/ >> womenpolicymakers_census_dta.tab >> >> Are now all valid references the bitstream at this location. In the >> case where the sequence number is absent, the first bitstream >> encountered in the Item with that name is returned. > I think this is what I need. Was this done via xslt or in servlet > code.
XSLT in the 1.5.0 or greater release of the dspace-xmlui. Note, I do not think this is present in the servlet code for the jspui in 1.5 -Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
