DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Bibliography management/BibTex equivalent

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Bernd Kreimeier <bk@oddworld.com> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
[...]
|> How does BibTeX deal with punctuation around optional entries?
|
| It doesn't, IIRC. Can't remember whether you get a bibtex processing
| error, or whether they are just ignored. That's why I find the
| "cooked" entries so scary - another example of procedural markup
| creeping in as a convenience. That's all fine if your bibliography
| entries never ever have to confirm with a different style, but if you 
| publish articles at conferences or in journals, it's bound to happen.

Right. The 'cooked' style is definitely a convenience and if you
republish articles in different journals it's clearly "a bad thing."

I think what's needed here is the equivalent of a BibTeX for DocBook.
That is, something that takes biblioentry's and a style and produces
bibliomixed's. I think that's a lot saner than trying to get the
stylesheets to do it all.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>      | So, are you working on finding
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | that bug now, or are you leaving
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | it until later? Yes.