Date:         Fri, 4 May 2007 10:11:01 -0400
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Subject:      Re: Errors from EAD document embedded in METS
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Sure. Have to mock one up at this point.

On May 4, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Brian Tingle wrote:

> Could you pass along one of your METS, either to me or to the list.
> I'll take a look and see if I can figure out what's going on.
>
> -- Brian
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> |From: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard 
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> |Behalf Of Cory Nimer
> |Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:44 PM
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> |Subject: [METS] Errors from EAD document embedded in METS
> |
> |Over the past week I have been looking at possibilities of embedding 
> an
> |EAD document using the new schema in a METS document for descriptive
> |metadata, but doing so seems to generate errors with the EAD schema
> |itself. I have validated the EAD document outside of the METS instance
> |in Oxygen without getting any errors, and have validated the EAD 
> schema
> |without problems, but the errors still keep popping up.
> |
> |There are four types of errors presented. The first two come together
> |and take the form:
> |
> |SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd
> |Location: 2723:41
> |Description: src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'xlink:type1' to 
> a(n)
> |'attribute group' component.
> |URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#src-resolve
> |
> |SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd
> |Location: 2723:41
> |Description: s4s-elt-must-match.1: The content of 'extendedType' must
> |match (annotation?, ((attribute | attributeGroup)*, anyAttribute?)). A
> |problem was found starting at: attributeGroup.
> |
> |The second pairs take the form:
> |
> |SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd
> |Location: 2796:41
> |Description: src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'xlink:type4' to 
> a(n)
> |'attribute group' component.
> |URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#src-resolve
> |
> |SystemID: http://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd
> |Location: 2796:41
> |Description: s4s-elt-invalid-content.1: The content of 'arc' is
> invalid.
> |Element 'attributeGroup' is invalid, misplaced, or occurs too often.
> |
> |Is there anyone working with EAD documents embedded in an xmlData tag
> |who might know what is going on with this? Is it just because of the
> |XLink references in the EAD schema? And should I worry about the
> |validation errors or not?
> |
> |I am new to METS and would appreciate any guidance anyone could give.
> |
> |Thank you,
> |
> |Cory Nimer
> |Manuscripts Cataloger/Metadata Specialist
> |Brigham Young University
> |1108 HBLL
> |(801) 422-6091
>
>
>
Leslie