[DDI-users] Fw: Passing line breaks to DDI-XML

[Fredy Kuhn]

Matthew,

thank you for reply,
it's clear to me we are not within DDI, but it's just in these monthts =
we are preparing a CDROM containing dataset inventory, so I was curious, =
if you put XML files there, and how you make transformations, or if you =
use the DTD/XML/XSL as tools for creation of HTM files.

Fredy Kuhn,=20
Sidos IT
T=E9l. 032-721-23-52 (lun-jeu)



----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Matthew A. Richardson" <matvey@umich.edu>
To: "Fredy Kuhn" <fredy.kuhn@sidos.unine.ch>
Cc: <ddi-users-admin@icpsr.umich.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [DDI-users] Fw: Passing line breaks to DDI-XML


> Freddy,
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> The CD-ROM DTD won't be relevant to your situation. It has nothing to =
do=20
> with DDI; it's just something ICPSR is doing to handle its CD-ROMs. =
It's an=20
> entirely different DTD that isn't part of the DDI project.
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> --On Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:30 PM +0200 Fredy Kuhn=20
> <fredy.kuhn@sidos.unine.ch> wrote:
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> >
> > Just found IPCSR's remarks in
> > http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ORG/aboutxml.html. Could you show me an =
XML
> > file using this CDROM-DTD and containing paragraphs? Thank you.
> >
> > regards
> > Freddy
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fredy Kuhn" <fredy.kuhn@sidos.unine.ch>
> > To: <ddi-users@icpsr.umich.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:08 PM
> > Subject: Passing line breaks to DDI-XML
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to this group. Working at the Swiss archive SIDOS, we are =
busy
> > preparing our dataset documentations for a common DDI based CESSDA =
data
> > catalogue, to be published one day by Nesstar. I'm programming an
> > interface which exports our database contents to DDI-XML-files.
> >
> > Here one of my questions:
> >
> > Some database fields (abstract etc.) contain simple formatting
> > (paragraphs, linefeeds, bullets). Is there a way to PASS this =
information
> > into XML? How? Actually, all 'white space' is translated to one =
space.
> >
> > For big text elements, it would be nice to keep basic formatting =
like
> > paragraphs. Can CR/LF be converted in a way to take them up by an =
XSL,
> > and also by Nesstar (this should rather be addressed to the Nesstar
> > folks.).
> >
> > As far as I see, the DDI-DTD should contain some specifications =
allowing
> > to pass layout information.
> >
> > For my intermediate results, see: =
http://www.static.sidos.ch/Index_idc.htm
> > For additional remarks, see:
> > http://www.static.sidos.ch/index_idc_remarks.htm
> >
> >
> > Fredy Kuhn, Sidos
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Matthew A. Richardson
> Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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