From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6563 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Bibliographies (answers and questions) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:01:45 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020121110145.4273bcbf.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <20020116092839.31396fa9.taco@elvenkind.com> <20020114164757.15953@oxmail.ox.ac.uk> <20020114175238.GA1829@localhost> <20020116092839.31396fa9.taco@elvenkind.com> <5.1.0.14.1.20020120220631.02e99b60@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397086 11710 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:18:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:18:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bourbaki@bigfoot.com, ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Hans Hagen" In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020120220631.02e99b60@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6563 First of all, anyone having problems with the bib module: please update your context. There has been a problem with the context core that caused the list of references to always remain empty. On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 22:08:04 +0100 "Hans Hagen" wrote: > >and we would really not need BibTeX at all. We don't *want* Bibtex. Bibtex is a nastly little program that uses a nearly unparseable database format. However, as it is now, XML is not yet wide-spread and there are lots of people that have .bib files. The bib module does not use bibtex directly, and this is very much on purpose. It uses bibtex as a data converter and sorting engine, and nothing more. To get the bib module to use XML, a number of steps have to be taken: a) We need a DTD/Schema b) We need an sorting routine for that DTD/Schema (perhaps XSLT but 'plain perl' is probably more portable) c) We need ConTeXt macros to parse the result XML d) We need a converter BibTeX -> XML e) We perhaps need a converter from the current TeX bib database to XML? Lots of stuff to do, so I am asking for volunteers, esp. for a) and b). (Marco?) -- groeten, Taco