DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Announce: BibTex for Docbook

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

[moving this to docbook-apps]

"E.L. Willighagen" <egonw@sci.kun.nl> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> for some time now I've been working on a BibTex like system for DocBook XML.
> I've written an article about it in LinuxFocus:
> 
> http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September2002/article257.shtml
> 
> Like BibTex the software uses a file database backend with references and
> refers to IDs to those references. The actual bibliography is autogenerated 
> and citations in the article are autonumbered.
> 
> The software, JReferences, can be found at 
> http://sf.net/projects/jreferences/.
> 
> Comments on the article and the software are welcomed.

The application looks interesting and the article is a nice concise
intro. But one thing it doesn't discuss is how JReference is similar to
or different from Markus Hoenicka's RefDB:

  http://refdb.sourceforge.net/

They seem like similar applications. Are they?

  --Mike