Re: YMALStoring bibliographic information in XML or

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

You can use pandoc-citeproc to convert your .bib to a
pandoc-readable  .yaml:

    pandoc-citeproc -y my.bib > my.yaml

+++ Bruce D'Arcus [Jan 27 18 11:18 ]:
>   Pandoc can read MODS XML files.
>   I personally use biblatex these days, since it's more expressive than
>   bibtex, has good tool support (I use emacs), can be easily converted to
>   other formats (including MODS), etc.
>   On Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 7:13:33 AM UTC-5, James AUSTIN wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone
>     For years I have been storing my bibliographic information in  .bib
>     files. Unfortunately I am not finding that the .bib format is
>     particularly human readable or extensible. Looking around for
>     alternatives, I was wondering if Pandoc can read from .xml files and
>     if
>     so, how one would create a reference. I have tried to do this but
>     pandoc-citeproc tells me that my reference cannot be found. Also,
>     can
>     anyone point me in the direction of a good introduction to learning
>     YMAL
>     please, as I have seen this mentioned in the user guide as an
>     alternative to .bib.
>     Thank you.
>     Best wishes
>     James
>
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