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How and where are templates in item-view.xsl called?

In the Mirage theme's page-structure.xsl, I see that the template with match="dri:body" will call </apply-templates> in its <xsl:otherwise> case.

How does this eventually lead to the templates in item-view.xsl being called/generated? Most of the templates in item-view.xsl match elements in the dim: namespace (i.e. match="dim:..."), which are from the mets.xml, not the DRI xml.

I don't see any templates in any .xsl files matching the dri namespace (i.e. match="dri:...") which explicitly call templates within item-view.xsl, such as the template matching dim:dim or mets:file.

Solution

  • Have a look at the DRI of an item page: http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/DRI/handle/10673/5

    You'll find that the references to the mets.xml are made within the referenceSet elements:

    <referenceSet id="aspect.artifactbrowser.ItemViewer.referenceSet.collection-viewer" n="collection-viewer" type="summaryView">
    <reference repositoryID="10673" type="DSpace Item" url="/metadata/handle/10673/5/mets.xml">
        <referenceSet rend="hierarchy" type="detailList">
            <head>This item appears in the following Collection(s)</head>
            <reference repositoryID="10673" type="DSpace Collection" url="/metadata/handle/10673/2/mets.xml"/>
        </referenceSet>
    </reference>
</referenceSet>

    These referenceSets are matched by the templates in the .../aspect/artifactbrowser/common.xsl file.

    In case the of a "summaryView", this is what happens:

    <xsl:apply-templates select="document($externalMetadataURL)" mode="summaryView"/>

    will be matched by (still in common.xsl)

    <xsl:template match="mets:METS[mets:dmdSec/mets:mdWrap[@OTHERMDTYPE='DIM']]" mode="summaryView">

    which in turn will call

    <xsl:call-template name="itemSummaryView-DIM"/>

    which is one of the top templates templates in item-view.xsl.