Subject: Re: [xsl] citation processing From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:20:21 +0100 |
> Actually it gets written by hand all the time, yes true, really, I've even written a few like that myself when I used to write papers with sums in rather than just writing about writing papers:-) But more than once when I've been faced with the problem of doing this, further enquiries revealed that there was in fact some strucured source somewhere. Even if you haven't got bibtex (say) it's a lot easier to parse a bibtex input entry than its output. So it's always worth enquiring if there is some marked up form. That said it's more likely in my field than in others where (for several decades at least) everyone used TeX and no one would dream of using any kind of word processor, there's a good chance that you can find something marked up, somewhere. It may have \ and { rather than < and & but still, markup is markup... > Bruce D'Arcus was working for some time on generalized processing for > citations: see his blog at yes but (as far as I understood it) Bruce was going the other way wasn't he? going from an XML "database" of references and a style specification to generate the kind of author-name citation style showed in the original post. > One of the besetting problems with citations is that people are > commonly under the impression that they are much more systematic and > regular than they actually are in real life. Yes, which is why I originally suggested that you might want something with a bit more fuzzy flexibility than a regexp replace available in xslt. It's alright specifying that author names , dates, titles, journal titles are sepated by . : ; or whatever, but the real question is what did the author put in the text when referencing some unpublished untitled letter where half the fields are meaningless... David
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