FGDC  ISO MTX (Metadata Transformation XSLT) Bruce Westcott – Geospatial Metadata Consultant

2Oct 2007 Topics to Cover  FGDC & Intergraph Cooperative Agreement  What is XSLT?  How it works: literals and strings  Transformation logic  Open Issues: –Logic for FC_FeatureCatalog –Logic for CRS_CoordinateReferenceSystems –Handling of ‘No Match’ elements and errors –ISO schema modification –Testing

3Oct 2007 GeoMedia Catalog Export  Intergraph implements a GUI which invokes an XSLT file to transform the content in an FGDC.XML file

4Oct 2007 “XSLT is a language for transforming XML documents into other XML documents.”  XSLT is designed for use as part of XSL, which is a stylesheet language for XML.  XSLT is not intended as a completely general-purpose XML transformation language. Source: What is XSLT?

5Oct 2007 FGDC_to_ISO.XSLT

6 Replacement with a “Literal” -

7Oct 2007 FGDC_to_ISO.XSLT

8 Replacement with a “String” - ISO-19115:2003(E) derived from - - FGDC Content Standards for Digital GeoSpatial Metadata

9Oct 2007 Open Issues  Logic for FC_FeatureCatalog  Logic for CRS_CoordinateReferenceSystems  Handling of ‘No Match’ elements and errors  ISO schema modification  Testing

10Oct 2007

11Oct 2007 Open Issues  Logic for FC_FeatureCatalog  Logic for CRS_CoordinateReferenceSystems  Handling of ‘No Match’ elements and errors  ISO schema modification  Testing