From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8928 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: m-bib, xml, etc. Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 08:05:57 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020806080557.5113f10b.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <8896998.1028559904579.JavaMail.darcusb@muohio.edu> 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 1035399292 31530 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:54:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Bruce D'Arcus" In-Reply-To: <8896998.1028559904579.JavaMail.darcusb@muohio.edu> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8928 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8928 On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:05:04 -0400 (EDT), Bruce wrote: > > Sounds great! I can't comment on any technical issues because I don't > know much about xml. I do, however, know what I need in a bib system, > and so will be happy to give input going forward. It sounds like I > ought to wait a bit before moving my fairly complex bib database off of > Endnote though, and go with xml rather than bibtex. You can assume that the XML bibtex format is roughly the current bibtex functionality + explicit tagging for the parts of an author's name, separated keywords, and support for subtitles. Just think about what features you miss in bibtex and write those down, that will be quite helpful. > Any sense of timeframe here Taco? Couple of weeks I think, it has taken long enough by now ;) > Also, has anyone taken a look at refDB? > > see http://refdb.sourceforge.net > > It's a bib system built on MySQL that processes both Docbook and LaTeX > documents. The XML files that define the formatting stylesheets are quite interesting. I think I will adopt these instead of the current TeX syntax. Their input format for bibliographic data is not XML though, but RIS. I'm not overly please with that, and using docbook or tei markup for bibliographic databases is probably a mistake, so I vote for sticking with the bibtex-DTD. -- groeten, Taco