Re: New bib module

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
> Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Am 30.03.2009 um 21:52 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>>
>>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>
>>>> this is also the last non-xp version as i'm going to merge the
>>>> cont-xp code into th emain version now
>>> Currently, the bib module does not work with cont-xp. Taco has said
>>> that it is easier to redo the bib module in lua than to get it to work
>>> with xp.
>> Will this new module also provide BibX support?
> 
> Perhaps ;)
> 
> On the input side, the new module will load bibliographies from disk
> into an internal XML structure and then use lpath queries to fetch
> bibliographic data. It will use separate loaders to do so, so in
> the end, anything can be plugged in as long as it can be converted
> to the internal structure.
> 
> I have not decided yet how to handle the output (layout) side.

easiest is to use setups

\startxmlsetups bibtex:somename
   ... fetch this ...
   ... fetch that ...

and then have something

\setupbibtex[setups=bibtex:somename]

with someplace

\xmlsetup{\bibtexparameter{setups}}{#1}

etc etc

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