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The IMesh Toolkit
[ Work In Hand > Components > OAI Normalization tools]
Perl tools for normalization of OAI records: trans.pl version 0.1
Requirements
XML::Simple
Description
trans.pl reads a configuration file containing one or more lines of the form
element regularexpression
e.g. type s/pamphlet/Text/i
trans.pl then applies the regular expression (regexp) to the value of
the named elements in a file supplied as argument (or to Standard input), and
writes the result out to an output file.
The XML supplied in the file or through standard input must
conform to the xml schema as specified in
http://dublincore.org/schemas/xmls/simpledc20020312.xsd
Usage
trans.pl -i <inputfile> -o <outputfile> -c <configfile> where <input> file is the name of the file containing the XML <outputfile> is the name of the new file containing the transformed XML and <configfile> is the name of the configuration file where the transformations are specified.
Using standard input.
You can supply the XML through standard input instead of in a file.
You will need to specify -i - instead of a file name.
eg. cat record1.xml | trans.pl -c trans.cfg -i - -o newrecord1.xml
Handling of nested elements.
This version deals only with the <metadata> section of OAI records. Future versions support more complex configuration files so as to be able to specify and distinguish between nested elements.
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Step-by-Step
A gentle walkthrough: using trans.pl to transform your records.