[Archivesspace_Users_Group] ampersand issue

[Brian Hoffman]

Currently unittitle gets imported as-is to the title field of resources and components. So when you import the example you get two records whose title field is "AmpTest & A”

We could change this so that you get "AmpTest & A” instead, but what happens when a user imports a unittitle like: "AmpTest & <emph>A<emph>”? We can’t unescape the & entity without leaving the XML zone, so what happens to the <emph> tag and content?

To me this is part of a larger still unresolved question of what exactly the data type of ASpace text field is supposed to be. Is it XML? If so, I think we should be assuming that archivists are managing XML data here, and it should be ‘&’. If it isn’t, and yet we still want to support inline styling, we need to come up with a set of rules for what kind of inline pseudo-markup is allowed and for how it maps to EAD on export.

Brian




> On Dec 8, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick <Chris.Fitzpatrick at lyrasis.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> I think I understand..
> So, the title is in the imported XML is 
> <unittitle>AmpTest & A</unittitle>
> but you want the EAD converter to switch this to be "AmpTest & A"?
> If that's the case, it seems like a pretty easy thing to add to the converter...
> 
> b,chris
> 
> 
> Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer, ArchivesSpace
> Skype: chrisfitzpat  | Phone: 918.236.6048
> http://archivesspace.org/ <http://archivesspace.org/>
> 
> 
> From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org><archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org>> on behalf of Galligan, Patrick <PGalligan at rockarch.org <mailto:PGalligan at rockarch.org>>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 6:58 PM
> To: Archivesspace Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] ampersand issue
>  
> Christine,
>  
> I’d like to circle back to this issue.
>  
> I was doing some testing with the merged pull request, and while it no longer just deletes the escaped character, it actually adds “&” to the display of the title.
>  
> I’ve also noticed that while it corrects the unittitle on the highest level, it doesn’t seem to work with series levels later.
>  
> Attached is a screenshot and the EAD that I imported into AS. Has anyone else run into this issue? Has anyone found a viable solution so far?
>  
> Patrick Galligan
> Rockefeller Archive Center
> Assistant Digital Archivist
> 914-366-6386
>  
> From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org>[mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org>] On Behalf Of Christine Di Bella
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 10:10 AM
> To: Archivesspace Users Group
> Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] FW: ampersand issue
>  
> Forwarded for Matt Francis.
>  
> (I believe there has been some work on this issue very recently by the University of Michigan folks. See this thread on Github - https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/issues/332 <https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/issues/332> - and the associated merged pull request. – Christine)
>  <https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/issues/332>	
> EAD Import - Problem with Escaped Characters · Issue #332 · archivesspace/archivesspace
> It looks like there is an issue with certain escaped characters (& and <) getting dropped in at least and tags. What we suspect is happening is that escaped characters are b...
> Read more... <https://github.com/archivesspace/archivesspace/issues/332>
>  
> From: MATTHEW R FRANCIS [mailto:mrf22 at psu.edu <mailto:mrf22 at psu.edu>] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 3:20 PM
> To: archivesspace users group-bounces <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org>>
> Subject: ampersand issue
>  
> All,
>  
> We are currently in ASpace v1.4.1 and recently observed an issue for when we try to import EAD files that contain ampersands in the XML, and are now curious if others have experienced this and/or if anyone knows a fix for the issue.
>  
> Currently when import files with an ampersand coded as "&" as seen in:
>  
> <image001.png>
>  
>  
> The "&" does not appear to be rendered in ASpace in any form, as seen in:
>  
>  
> <image002.png>
>  
> In looking through JIRA it does not appear that this specific issue/behavior has been reported, but before reporting it as a bug we were hoping to determine if this was a universal issue, or perhaps just local.
>  
> Thanks for the help and feedback.
>  
> -Matt
>  
> Matt Francis
> Archivist for Collection Management
> Special Collections Library
> Penn State University
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