Re: [docbook-apps] Query: bug in <citation>#PCDATA</citation>

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Ron Catterall wrote:

> Thanks Jirka, but surely in scientific publishing it is more appropriate 
> to use <biblioref> which is completely unambiguous

Of course, it depends on citation style your prefer. It is very common 
to have citation marked by abbreviation composed from author name and 
year of publication, like [Kosek2005] or [Ko05]. It is easier to assign 
such identifier to biblioentry using <abbrev> element and then reference 
it using <citation> then using other ways.

Of couse you can manage parallel real IDs which are assigned using 
<biblioentry id="..."/> and then referenced using biblioref or xref. But 
having two identifiers is silly and hard to maintain, and using 
abbreviations like Kosek2005 for IDs of biblioentries is not always 
good. In large documents it is quite usual to have some naming policy 
for IDs, like tables are prefixed by tab., chapters by ch. and 
biblioentries by bib and simple bibliography abbreviation doesn't fit 
into this schema.

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