Subject: ANN: RefDB 0.8.2 (was: Re: (dsssl) Practical Bibliography question) From: "Markus Hoenicka" <hoenicka_markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:28:52 -0600 |
Hi all, this is partly a followup to a discussion we had in October last year about bibliographies in SGML documents. Back then I was bold enough to offer TEI support for my reference database and bibliography tool for markup languages, RefDB (http://refdb.sourceforge.net). The previous versions supported only DocBook SGML and XML documents and used DSSSL stylesheets for the final transformation to HTML or printable output. The new version 0.8.2 contains also XSL stylesheets for DocBook XML and TEI XML documents. All stylesheets are implemented as driver files for the well-known stylesheets by Norm Walsh and Sebastian Rahtz. The idea of RefDB is similar to commercial reference databases like Reference Manager or EndNote: You feed the database with bibliographic references. You also feed the database with XML documents containing the formatting information for particular publications or publishers. All you need to do in your SGML or XML document is to create links with <xref> (DocBook) or <ptr> (TEI) elements, respectively. These links encode which references from the database you want to cite and how they should be rendered. RefDB will then create a <bibliography> or <div> element, respectively, containing all bibliographic information and the corresponding linkends to your links. You include this element as an external entity into your document. The stylesheet driver files will then format the citations and the bibliography according to the bibliography style you need. Reformatting for a different bibliography style requires no modifications of your document source. SGML documents can be transformed with both Jade and OpenJade. XML documents can be transformed with most if not all XSLT processors. Furthermore, RefDB is extensible in terms of the supported document types. You can add other document types without hacking the RefDB innards by providing suitable DSSSL or XSL stylesheet driver files. Please visit http://refdb.sourceforge.net/examples.html for RefDB example output from DocBook and TEI documents. (and yes, RefDB is free and runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows/Cygwin, at least) regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka hoenicka_markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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