XSLT: Extracting Metadata

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XSLT Extracting Metadata

• Robert Ferrer
• Grainger Engineering Library Information Center
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• http//dli.grainger.uiuc.edu
  thabing_at_uiuc.edu

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XSLT Extracting Metadata

• Metadata is extracted from the base XML files
• Utilization of XML Header Declaration
• lt!DOCTYPE artcl SYSTEM ..\..\..\artcl_xml.dtdgt
• DTD is used to resolve entities
• Entities retained in the metadata
• Visual Basic application serves as parser
• Document Object Model (DOM)
• XSL Style Sheets

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XSLT Extracting Metadata

• Utilization of XSL Style Sheets
• XSL transformative features to generate base
  metadata file and forward citation fragment
• XSL scripting features to generate derived
  elements
• XSL instantiation of ActiveX objects to test for
  links and parse strings

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XSLT Extracting Metadata

• Utilization of DOM
• Insert pseudo elements (e.g. bibliographic data)
• Search reference citations from the generated
  metadata object to insert forward references into
  other metadata files