Leading and trailing whitespace in RDF/XML values

[briesenberg07]

Leading and trailing whitespace exists in RDF/XML values as output by cdm-2-rdf.xsl.

Examples include values for the following properties:

• dct:description
• dpla:providedLabel

One significant reason for this is that in order to split all LC headings, the XSL transform currently tokenizes ';'. Previously, '; ' was tokenized, but this missed some headings that were separated by only a semicolon, a semicolon followed by a line break, etc.

To fix

It seems that this could be easily fixed by using OpenRefine to eliminate leading and trailing whitespace in text values?

[briesenberg07]

Closing this because:

• The tokenizing used to split subject headings in cdm-2-rdf.xsl was modified to reduce output leading and trailing whitespace
• The removal of any remaining whitespace in output data files has been created as a task in Asana