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 At 03:30 PM 9/15/2004, you wrote: MODS doesn't really have explicit typing, so the function does the typing. It says, in really simplistic terms, if the record has two titles and is issued once, it's a chapter; if only one title, it's a book. That way, even those things that aren't technically chapters or books but have the same characteristics get formatted fairly accurately. This strikes me as strange, since I'd hardly think machine heuristics could be trusted to decide what a thing "is"; but if that's the way MODS works and if formatting is in actuality more an expression of the structure of the record than of the ontological status of what it refers to, I suppose I'm not one to complain.... :-> I'm not really sure the implications of that for the templates; it sounds like you're suggesting it'd be easiest to have a fixed list of "types" and have a bunch of templates like the below, where mods:type is created in the temporary tree? If your mods data is created in a temporary tree and you can provide this, yes certainly, it would do nicely. (Of course in the XSLT you might just match on mods:mods, and that @type would be used only for the dynamic delegation of logic to the appropriate configuration node.) As for a fixed list of types, I think that's more or less inevitable, though certainly the list can and should be extensible, and a fallback "catchall" type should also be available for when data coming in corresponds to no known type at all. Regards, Wendell ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ======================================================================
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