https://labs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/tags/xml/ Recent content in Xml on UB Labs Hugo en labs@ub.uni-frankfurt.de (UB Labs) labs@ub.uni-frankfurt.de (UB Labs) Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000 https://labs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/post/tips-for-cleaner-faster-and-more-maintainable-xslt-code/ Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000labs@ub.uni-frankfurt.de (UB Labs) https://labs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/post/tips-for-cleaner-faster-and-more-maintainable-xslt-code/ <p>Like many other <a href="https://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/programmes/infrastructure/lis/funding_opportunities/specialised_info_services/index.html">Specialised Information Services</a> (FID), we are working with XSLT to map XML metadata from data providers to our data model, an extended version of the RDF-XML based <a href="https://pro.europeana.eu/page/edm-documentation">Europeana Data Model</a> (EDM). In the <a href="https://www.performing-arts.eu">FID Performing Arts</a> (FID DK), we currently receive data from 22 data providers that deliver 6 different official metadata standards like MARC21, EAD and LIDO as well as 10 individual data standards that result from working with database systems like MS Access or FAUST DB. As most metadata is already delivered in XML, it only made sense to use a programming language like XSLT the main purpose of which is the transformation XML documents.</p>