[Xtf-user] Request for Assistance

[David G. <Dav...@ya...>]

Dear List:

Yesterday I download  and successfully installed the XTF application in 
about one hour. The author(s) of the Deployment and Programming Guide did a 
wonderful job. This morning I began to explore under the hood of the system 
to understand how the application works. To that end I added some of my own 
ead encoded xml files and used "textIndexer" to add additional content to 
the default index. From the new index I was able to search and retrieve my 
own content. The one problem I did encounter was that my ead document (the 
search result was formatted properly) did not display metadata for the 
tags: Author, Title, Collection, Published, Matches and Similar. In 
addition words in context although rendered in red text where not hot linked.

  I am not an expert XSLT programmer but I knew enough (I think) to 
determine that textIndexer points to docSelector.xsl where pre-filtering 
and display options are identified. I looked at docSelector  and observed 
that ead files are pre-filtered by eadPreFiler.xsl  that is pre-pended with 
preFilterCommon.xsl. Together these files operate to extract metdata about 
the above tags and than write out a new ead file that is sent to the index 
engine. I examined the code in eadPreFiler.xsl  which can obtain metadata 
for the tags either from a "dc" file if present or from the ead document 
itself. The templates get-ead-title  get-ead-author get-ead-date 
get-ead-description  get-ead-identifier  had test conditions that aligned 
with my ead document. For example the template get-ead-author says:

<!-- Fetch creator (author) info from the eadHeader or the first 
archdesc/did. -->
   <xsl:template name="get-ead-author">
     <xsl:choose>
       <xsl:when test="/ead/eadheader/filedesc/titlestmt/author">
         <creator xtf:meta="true">
           <xsl:value-of select="/ead/eadheader/filedesc/titlestmt/author"/>
         </creator>
       </xsl:when>
       <xsl:when 
test="/ead/archdesc[1]/did[1]/origination[starts-with(@label, 'Creator')]">
         <creator xtf:meta="true">
           <xsl:value-of 
select="/ead/archdesc[1]/did[1]/origination[@label, 'Creator']"/>
         </creator>
       </xsl:when>
     </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:template>

Here is a code snippet from my ead document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ASCII"?>
<!DOCTYPE ead PUBLIC "-//Society of American Archivists//DTD ead.dtd 
(Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Version 1.0)//EN" "ead.dtd">
<ead id="mssa.ms.0205">
   <eadheader langencoding="ISO639-2" findaidstatus="edited-full-draft" 
audience="external" id="ACP7866">
     <eadid systemid="xml">mssa.ms.0205</eadid>
     <filedesc>
       <titlestmt>
         <titleproper>Guide to the Percival Farquhar Papers
         <num>Manuscript Group 205</num></titleproper>
         <author>compiled by Manuscripts and Archives Staff</author>
       </titlestmt>

Why on output  in the Author tag is this data missing "compiled by 
Manuscripts and Archives"  and the word "none" is substituted? Any general 
assistance to resolve this type of problem and any insight as to why words 
in context where not hot linked would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Much,

David



David Gewirtz
Yale University
Project Manager and Digital Preservation Architect
Academic Media & Technology - Library Systems Group
Phone:203-432-3195 Cell: 203-530-6218
e-mail: David.Gewirtz@Yale.edu