[ckan-dev] How to access source XML document from harvested dataset?

Thu Dec 18 17:45:03 UTC 2014

Great feedback, Stefan, thanks very much.  This helps me understand "the
more natural way to do it in CKAN."  We'll look to modify the harvester to
pull in the bucket of fields we need.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Stefan Oderbolz <stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch>
wrote:
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> I don't think that's a good idea to have different data on the frontend
> and the CKAN backend. This means that a user that uses the CKAN API to
> access this data would not get the data, and in general it's so much easier
> to display and style data in the "CKAN way" than having to hack around it.
>
> But if you really really really want to do that, you have to write a
> custom template helper function (
> https://ckan.readthedocs.org/en/1485-rtd-theme/theming/templates.html#custom-template-helper-functions)
> where you load in the XML and parse it to then have the information
> available to display in the template.
>
> - Stefan
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Bruce Crevensten <
> becrevensten at alaska.edu> wrote:
>
>> We'd like to modify some dataset templates to display information that is
>> present in the full XML of a harvested (ISO19139) document, but isn't
>> pulled into CKAN fields via the harvester at the moment.
>>
>> How can that be accessed from a template?
>>
>> We know we can modify the harvester to pull in anything we want, but in
>> this case the information (credits for people responsible for the dataset)
>> may just pollute the CKAN metadata, so we thought perhaps we could just
>> display it from the source XML document.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> - Bruce
>>
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>>
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