DSpace XMLUI simple customization

DRANK

IntroductionDSpace is one of the most popular open source software used for creating open access repositories. One of the main strengths is its modularity, providing two main user interface options: JSPUI (Java Server Pages-based interface) and XMLUI (XML-based interface). You can take a look at the online demo to see the noticeable differences.We can fully customize the look and feel of DSpace website depending on which user interface we choose. The official documentation (version 6.2 at the time of writing) describes the insides of DSpace and the many ways we can achieve this, but the amount of information may be overwhelming for the non-experts in the field. That is why in this article I will show an ultra fast (though dirty) way to customize XMLUI. Also, I will edit some default labels in the Spanish translation.Let's do itXMLUI framework consists of three main tiers, in increasing order of complexity:Style Tier - allows one to use CSS and simple XHTML to stylize an existing XMLUI…