Re: New bib module

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> 
>> Am 31.03.2009 um 09:27 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
>>
>>>> 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.
>> Why not just a lua table to save the data?
> 
> Yes, I was wondering the same thing. This is typically how the various CSL
> implementations work; parse the input data (XML, RDF, BibTeX, etc.) into some
> internal structure.

just because the xml subsystem has some nice filtering and fetching 
built in (kind of xpath); internally the xml tree is of course a table, 
so it's no big deal to directly build that table without having xml, but 
ther ei sno need to invent yet another interface to such a datastructure

Hans


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