XML importer currently broken but I'll. Check in a fix shortly

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On Sep 16, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Arithmeticus <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> Under ex:orders, try inserting the two periods that should precede
> "authors". If that doesn't work, back up and see if the sort function
> will work on *any* of the fields, especially the one-placename ones.
> 
> My thanks, too, to David for pointing out the XML importer page.
> Although it's not clearly written, it may help me reconsider a few
> problems I'm encountering.
> 
> jk
> 
> On Sep 15, 12:44 pm, Michael Fitzgerald <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hmm - never had any problems getting the exhibit to display here (and
>> it still works for me right now). It does everything it should:
>> faceting, etc. It just doesn't sort.
>> 
>> Given RDF data of the form that Zotero spits out:
>> 
>>     <bib:Book rdf:about="urn:isbn:9780826515322">
>>         <dc:date>2006</dc:date>
>>         <dc:identifier>ISBN 9780826515322</dc:identifier>
>>         <dc:publisher>
>>             <foaf:Organization>
>>                <foaf:name>Vanderbilt University Press</foaf:name>
>>             </foaf:Organization>
>>         </dc:publisher>
>>         <dc:title>A Shot In The Dark</dc:title>
>>         <bib:authors>
>>             <rdf:Seq>
>>                 <rdf:li>
>>                     <foaf:Person>
>>                         <foaf:givenname>Martin</foaf:givenname>
>>                         <foaf:surname>Hawkins</foaf:surname>
>>                     </foaf:Person>
>>                 </rdf:li>
>>             </rdf:Seq>
>>         </bib:authors>
>>         <z:itemType>book</z:itemType>
>>     </bib:Book>
>> 
>> Should this do the job?
>> 
>> <div ex:role="collection" ex:itemTypes="Book"></div>
>>         <div ex:role="view" ex:orders="authors.surname, authors.givenname"
>> ex:directions="ascending, ascending" ex:showAll="true"</div>
>> 
>> The answer has to be no, since it doesn't..... But why?
>> 
>> Right now, the xml reader seems to introduce new complexity, but if
>> that's the only way to solve the problem, I'll have to deal with that.
>> Frustrating that the live example on the wiki which is about books
>> doesn't work.
>> 
>> Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:41 AM, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>  Mike, when I try to examine the exhibit I get a "failed to load js file"
>>> error---it's having trouble reading the results returned from babel.
>> 
>>> in case it simplifies your pipeline, you might consider using the build-in
>>> xml reader now part of trunk.simile-widgets.org .  You should be able to set
>>> it to parse your rdf-xml:
>>> http://www.simile-widgets.org/wiki/Exhibit/XML_Importer
>> 
>>> On 9/15/2010 9:53 AM, Michael Fitzgerald wrote:
>> 
>>>> I'm working on a simple book collection exhibit based on an RDF export
>>>> from Zotero. The problem I'm encountering is in getting the items to
>>>> sort alphabetically by author name. I've figured out how to get the
>>>> first name and last name to display in the lens and I've figured out
>>>> how to get last name to appear as a facet (would love to have that be
>>>> "last, first" combined instead, if that's possible). But when trying
>>>> to use those identical terms (authors.surname and authors.givenname)
>>>> in ex:orders, I get what just seems to be random order. I suspect it
>>>> might have something to do with nodes and is probably an easy fix. Any
>>>> assistance gratefully received.
>> 
>>>> Exhibit here:
>> 
>>>> http://lrdudc.wrlc.org/jazz/collections/stokes-books-rdf.html
>> 
>>>> RDF data here:
>> 
>>>> http://lrdudc.wrlc.org/jazz/collections/stokes-books.rdf
>> 
>>>> Thanks -
>> 
>>>> Mike
>> 
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