Re: XMP Metadata to tab-delemited file

From: Kyle Banerjee <kyle.banerjee_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:09:18 -0800
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Michael Hopwood <michael_at_editeur.org>wrote:

> I got as far as producing XMP RDF/XML files but the problem then remains;
> how to usefully manage these via XSLT transforms?
>
> The problem is that XMP uses an RDF syntax that comes in many flavours and
> doesn't result in a predictable set of xpaths to apply the XSLT to.
>

XSLT is not a good tool for many kinds of XML processing. In your
situation, string processing or scanning for what tags are present and then
outputting in delimited text so you know what is where is probably a better
way to go.

kyle
Received on Mon Jan 14 2013 - 14:10:39 EST