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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: BibTex for Docbook
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 21:50, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > for people interested in a comparison between JReferences and RefDB > I'd suggest to go back in the list archives about 1 year. We had a > funny discussion back then. > > I haven't tested any recent releases of JReferences, but from what > I've gathered from the current discussion I see the following main > issues that set RefDB apart from JReferences: > > - RefDB works with DocBook XML and SGML documents, TEI XML documents, > and LaTeX documents (with somewhat limited capabilities). Other > SGML/XML document types can be added without modification of RefDB > itself (just some stylesheet hacking). Yes, that is a current advantage of RefDB. > - RefDB does *not* require any changes in the DTDs. Documents remain > valid against the stock DTDs, so using RefDB does not create an > interchange issue. In the next version JReferences will not require that too (thanx to Jirka Kosek's ideas). > - RefDB does not modify the SGML/XML source document. The bibliography > is created as an external entity. The citations (which are actually > xref elements) are rendered by pulling in the appropriate > information from the bibliography element and are hyperlinked (in > HTML and PDF output) to the corresponding references in the > bibliography. The advantage of not modifying the source document is > that reformatting the document for a different bibliography style is > a snap. JReferences does change the doc, but that is easy to change... Might be an advantage too sometimes... > - RefDB uses a bibliography style database to render citations and > bibliographies according to a specific style of a publisher or of a > publication. This includes aspects like the sequence of the elements > (authors, year, title, journal, volume, issue, pages...), the > rendering of the author names (FM Last, F.M. Last, F. M. Last, > Last,F.M. and all other permutations), as well as the rendering in > the output formats (volume bold or italics, journal names regular or > italics etc). Both author/year and numeric citation styles are > supported. The styles are defined as XML documents. A tie? > - In addition to the document-based bibliography output, RefDB can > generate raw bibliographies in DocBook SGML/XML, TEI XML, RIS, > BibTeX and a few other formats. JReferences supports BibTeXML, DocBook, BibTeX at this moment only. > - RefDB is a multi-user system. Users can share a common reference > database and still maintain their personal info (notes, reprint status, > availability etc). > > - RefDB uses a SQL database to store the references. The current > stable branch uses MySQL, the development branch in CVS uses MySQL > or PostgreSQL. Support for an embedded SQL library is in preparation. These two are the reason why I continued JReferences after that discussion about a year ago. I still think RefDB is an excellent program, but not if you do not have a MySQL server around... > - RefDB uses scriptable command-line clients as well as a web > interface. This offers both a convenient graphical interface and the > power of unix plumbing. True. JReferences will have a editor in the future. > - RefDB can store far more information per reference than actually is > used to display the reference. Additional information includes > an unlimited number of keywords, an URL to an electronic offprint, > personal notes, availability information (where is that paper > copy?), abstracts etc. This greatly simplifies retrieving the proper > references and maintaining a large collection of paper or electronic > offprints. JReferences supports this too by using BibTeXML file database... Many ways to do it... > - RefDB can directly import RIS (the lingua franca of Windows > reference databases), BibTeX and DocBook (with a little stylesheet > tweaking) references. TEI import is in preparation. JReferences support import of RIS, BibTeX, DocBook and BibTeXML. > Therefore I wouldn't support the notion that RefDB and JReferences are > "similar" but the decision is left to those who actually use and > compare both apps. The purpose is similar, and that was meant I think... > To see the RefDB bibliography capabilities at work, I suggest to visit: Anyone should do that. Its good software. > http://refdb.sourceforge.net/examples.html Egon
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