Hey, Hilton and Claudia. That's great, so we can just use pure XML
semantics to do this... good idea.

Also, Bram Luyten pointed out to me that I could use hierarchical Discovery
facets:

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC4x/Discovery#Discovery-Hierarchical%28taxonomiesbased%29sidebarfacets

Thanks for the advice, I'll play around and see what I can come up with.

Cheers,

Alan

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Claudia Jürgen <
claudia.juer...@ub.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

> Hey Alan,
>
> we did split the input forms up into different forms - using quite a
> variety and both in English and German, the form map etc.
>
> Here ist how you can do it
> input-forms.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding='iso-8859-1' ?>
> <!DOCTYPE input-forms SYSTEM "input-forms.dtd" [
>     <!ENTITY map SYSTEM "path to the form map">
>     <!ENTITY basic SYSTEM "path to the form basic">
>     ...
> ]>
>
> <input-forms>
>         &map;
>         <form-definitions>
>                 &basic;
>                 ....
>         </form-definitions>
> ...
> </input-forms>
>
> We are using 4.2.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Claudia Jürgen
>
>
> Am 12.03.2015 um 14:07 schrieb Alan Orth:
> > Hey, all.
> >
> > Our institution has many groups collaborating on one DSpace repository
> and
> > we have many sets of metadata terms. In the beginning we thought it was
> > clever to add them to input-forms.xml, but now this file is nearly 6,000
> > lines, which is a pain to manage and causes problems when we rebase on
> top
> > of new upstream DSpace releases in git. :)
> >
> > I had a look at the "controlled vocabulary" functionality, which allows
> you
> > to break out terms to separate XML files, but this has the unfortunate
> side
> > effect of then storing the values as a hierarchy, for example,
> > "Organization A::Subjects::Subject A", as opposed to just "Subject A".
> This
> > breaks basically everything that relies on metadata aggregation or
> > searching (not to mention it is ugly).
> >
> > Is there some way to split up input-forms.xml? What are other DSpace
> users
> > at large institutions doing? For the record, we're using DSpace 4.3.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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