Bibliography management in XHTML

[Matej Cepl]

Hi,

this is not strictly about HTML per se, but rather about its practical
usage. I would like to write some articles (similar in structure to
LaTeX article) with XHTML (Amaya?), but I am not sure how to operate
with bibliographies. Certainly that I have all my references in BibTeX
database. Is there any reasonable way how to emulate result of \cite
and thebibliography section in XHTML. I don't mean in terms of HTML
creation (probably <cite> and <dl> list would be OK for that), but in
terms of authoring? Do you know about any reasonably simple way (on
Unix, so I can use some scripts) to get data for citation, formate it,
and create particular HTML stuff from bibliographic database (and if
that is not in BibTeX format, how to convert it from BibTeX)?

Thanks for any thoughts,

Matej

P.S.: Please Cc: me answers to email address, I will post brief
summary to this list.

[David Dorward]

Re: Bibliography management in XHTML

Matej Cepl wrote:[color=blue]
> Do you know about any reasonably simple way (on
> Unix, so I can use some scripts) to get data for citation, formate it,
> and create particular HTML stuff from bibliographic database (and if
> that is not in BibTeX format, how to convert it from BibTeX)?[/color]

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bib2html/

http://freshmeat.net/projects/bib2htmlwkiri/

[color=blue]
> P.S.: Please Cc: me answers to email address, I will post brief
> summary to this list.[/color]

Ask on Usenet, see the answer on Usenet (and its a group, not a list)

[Matej Cepl]

Re: Bibliography management in XHTML

David Dorward <dorward@yahoo. com> wrote in message news:<bqcj2r$4v 7$1$830fa79f@ne ws.demon.co.uk> ...[color=blue]
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bib2html/
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bib2htmlwkiri/[/color]

Well, neither of these is what I asked for -- I do not need bib2html
(there is plenty of them out there), but rather something similar to
BibTeX itself, but that it would work with HTML page instead of
..tex/.aux file. So that for example, so when I would postprocess HTML
page with this (or any other element, it doesn't matter):

<mycite id="posner:SAR-1999">

program would go to the BibTeX file and spit out something like:

<cite>Posner (1999)</cite>

and then add to the end of the file (inside the list which it would
create):

<li><em>Richa rd Posner</em>. Sex and Reason. Harvard University Press.
Cambridge, MA. 1999</li>

(or possibly something more logically structured like <dim
class="citedref ">).

Do you understand what I want?

Thanks,

Matej

[Nick Kew]

Re: Bibliography management in XHTML

In article <35993bcb.03120 91413.1664bf5b@ posting.google. com>, one of infinite monkeys
at the keyboard of cepl@surfbest.n et (Matej Cepl) wrote:[color=blue]
> David Dorward <dorward@yahoo. com> wrote in message news:<bqcj2r$4v 7$1$830fa79f@ne ws.demon.co.uk> ...[color=green]
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bib2html/
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bib2htmlwkiri/[/color]
>
> Well, neither of these is what I asked for -- I do not need bib2html
> (there is plenty of them out there), but rather something similar to
> BibTeX itself, but that it would work with HTML page instead of
> .tex/.aux file. So that for example, so when I would postprocess HTML
> page with this (or any other element, it doesn't matter):[/color]

This is a lot clearer than your original question.
[color=blue]
> <mycite id="posner:SAR-1999">
>
> program would go to the BibTeX file and spit out something like:
>
> <cite>Posner (1999)</cite>
>
> and then add to the end of the file (inside the list which it would
> create):
>
> <li><em>Richa rd Posner</em>. Sex and Reason. Harvard University Press.
> Cambridge, MA. 1999</li>[/color]

If you want to build that into the web publishing process, you could
define an XML namespace for <mycite> and whatever else you need, and
run it under mod_xmlns.

Alternatively if you only need static preprocessing (so that performance
isn't an issue), a simple Perl script would probably be fine.

In either case, the crux of the job is to define your language -
assuming it extends beyond a single <mycite> element. Once you've
got that it's straightforward .

--
Nick Kew

In urgent need of paying work - see http://www.webthing.com/~nick/cv.html