XSL Transformations

# EAD and MARC sitting in a tree: D-R-U-P-A-L Mark Matienzo Yale University Library (ex-New York Public Library)
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the world of webstandards

OpenLink RDF Browser

I really like the idea of using XSLT to manipulate MARC data -- it's not a perfect translation language, to be sure, but it's a standard, which means it gives us a shared language. We can share tricks, patterns, and entire stylesheets for different purposes, from data conversion to display formatting, and high-performance XSLT processors can be embedded into just about any kind of software platform. The LoC makes a few nice, reusable stylesheets available for MARCXML work -- it would be nice to see something like that evolve into a public repository of stylesheets.

The aim is to show that providing a semantically rich HTML gives much more value to your code: using a semantically rich HTML code allows a better use of CSS, makes your HTML intelligible to a wider range of user agents (especially search engines bots).

This is the namespace document for treetriples, a fairly readable RDF syntax designed for XSLT.