<div dir="ltr">Please disregard the hyphen in the example EAD import! The hazards of cutting and pasting out of Internet Explorer. <div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><bioghist encodinganalog="545"><p><</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">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></span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Chris Powell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sooty@umich.edu" target="_blank">sooty@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello --<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Example bioghist EAD prior to import:</div><div><br></div><div><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><br></div><div><br></div><div>Example bioghist EAD after export:</div><div><br></div><div><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><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chris Powell</div><div>University of Michigan</div><div>Digital Library Production Service</div></font></span></div>
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