[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Invalid EAD export

Mon Sep 14 11:42:54 EDT 2015

Please disregard the hyphen in the example EAD import! The hazards of
cutting and pasting out of Internet Explorer.

<bioghist encodinganalog="545"><persname>Francis Steiner</persname>was
born January 16, 1895 in New Jersey, to German parents. He was the oldest
of three children.A communist and conscientious objector [etc.]
There is no information regarding Francis Steiner after his last
letter of November 7, 1920. </bioghist>

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Chris Powell <sooty at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hello --
>
> It appears that if the first word or phrase in any of the "notes" elements
> that contain a text block and support mixed content, like abstract,
> bioghist or scopecontent is wrapped in a persname, the EAD export is
> invalid as all paragraphs lack p element wrappers.
>
> I've tested this with other elements to start the first paragraph and
> persname to start the second paragraph and those do not cause problems,
> only persname to start the first paragraph.
>
> Example bioghist EAD prior to import:
>
> <bioghist encodinganalog="545">-<p><persname>Francis Steiner</persname>was
> born January 16, 1895 in New Jersey, to German parents. He was the oldest
> of three children.</p><p>A communist and conscientious objector [etc.]
> </p><p>There is no information regarding Francis Steiner after his last
> letter of November 7, 1920. </p></bioghist>
>
> Example bioghist EAD after export:
>
> <bioghist id="aspace_6e16003b2d18f8ad6c487cd5712fc162"><head>Biographical
> / Historical</head><persname>Francis Steiner</persname>was born January 16,
> 1895 in New Jersey, to German parents. He was the oldest of three children.
> A communist and conscientious objector [etc.] There is no information
> regarding Francis Steiner after his last letter of November 7, 1920.
> </bioghist>
>
>
> Chris Powell
> University of Michigan
> Digital Library Production Service
>
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