Examples of biblioref

[Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de>]

Hi,

for bibliographic references I use the biblioref element as it seems it 
was invented for. It can also hold some additional attributes (begin, 
end, units). However, the explanation for DocBook 4 [1] is "TBD" and the 
stylesheets haven't any support in it. ;-) (In DocBook 5 there are some 
explanations though.)

Now I was looking for some examples, especially the additional attributes 
above in combinations with "xrefstyle". I suppose, the general concept is 
the same like the xref element. 

For example, assume I have the following entry:

  <biblioentry xml:id="bib.web.docbook">
    <abbrev>docbook</abbrev>
    <title>DocBook</title>
    <subtitle>The Definitive Guide</subtitle>
    <author>
      <personname>
        <surname>Walsh</surname>
        <firstname>Norman</firstname>
      </personname>
    </author>
    <author>
      <personname>
        <surname>Muellner</surname>
        <firstname>Leonard</firstname>
      </personname>
    </author>
    <copyright>
        <year>1999</year>
        <holder>O'Reilly</holder>
    </copyright>
    <edition>1.</edition>
    <biblioid class="isbn">1-56592-580-7</biblioid>
  </biblioentry>


When I want to reference to a specific page, it may be something like 
this:

   <biblioref linkend="bib.web.docbook"
              unit="page"
              begin="50"/>

But how do I change the appearance of the link? Probably I need a 
xrefstyle:

   <biblioref linkend="bib.web.docbook"
              unit="page"
              begin="50"
              xrefstyle="..."/>

The question is: What content can/should I choose for xrefstyle? It seems 
there are an awful lot of combinations. Are there any ideas, plans what 
is the prefered markup in this regard? Or is my understanding of 
biblioref wrong?


Thanks,
Tom

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[1] http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/biblioref.html

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Thomas Schraitle