[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Changes to PDF export in 2.8?

[Chris Mayo]

Hi all,

We keep a modified in-house version of the ead-to-pdf stylesheet so that we
can put out Finding Aids with our own branding and a few other changes.
When we recently installed 2.8 on our test server, we discovered that the
export to PDF job was failing with the following error info:

"The context item for axis step ./ead is absent. Found while atomizing the
first argument of fn:subst"

Our production server is currently running on 2.6, and we had previously
updated the test server to 2.7 without that upgrade breaking our
stylesheet, so the issue appears to have been introduced between 2.7 and
2.8. As far as I can tell, the base code for the stylesheet didn't change
between those versions, and while the error message looks like an Xpath
problem, the EAD structure doesn't appear to have changed either.

Has anyone else encountered problems with modified finding aid stylesheets
in 2.8, or have any thoughts on what could be causing this error?

Chris

Chris Mayo
Digital Production Librarian
Boston College
chris.mayo at bc.edu
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