Re: [CODE4LIB] Dublin Core to tab delimited text

2009-10-14 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi Edward, That should be easy enough. The XML is more or less flat. A simple XSLT stylesheet should suffice in this case. A tricky part might be with repeatable elements. You may have to concatenate repeatable elements like into a single string separated by a pipe '|' or something. I'm not

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dublin Core to tab delimited text

2009-10-14 Thread Edward Iglesias
Trying to move from eprints to ContentDM. I was able to export the metadata easily enough but now have a file that looks like this: http://eprints.org/ep2/data";> 1 1 disk0/00/00/00/01 2003-02-07 thesis Alcohol affects individuals physically, mentally, a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dublin Core to tab delimited text

2009-10-14 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi Edward, The probability of transforming Dublin Core or any other XML standard into tab delimited text is dependent upon how "database-like" the source XML is. If your Dublin Core files have a lot of hierarchical/nested content, you're going to have some problems migrating it into a simple tab d

[CODE4LIB] Dublin Core to tab delimited text

2009-10-14 Thread Edward Iglesias
Hello there. Does anyone have an xslt stylesheet or know of a tool that can transform dublin core xml into tab delimited text? Thanks, Edward Iglesias