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Subject: No year of publication for biblioentry
I'm converting a set of papers - about 60 in total - from a custom XML format (we used whatever tags we thought appropriate) to DocBook. It's been a long and sometimes painful process, but the result is worth the effort. I have a couple of problems, but I'll try to address them one by one when I'm sure I can't find the solution via other means. Here's the first: There's no year of publication element in a biblioentry. Here's a sample biblioentry: <biblioentry> <title>Interface morphology development during stress corrosion cracking: Part I, via surface diffusion.</title> <authorgroup> <author><firstname>R.</firstname><surname>Asaro</surname></author> <author><firstname>W.</firstname><surname>Tiller</surname></author> </authorgroup> <pagenums>1789-1796</pagenums> </biblioentry> The year the book was published is very important, as later additions may not include the correct pages. I can see this being especially important when citing online work. A simple <year> tag would be fine, I think. Unless there's a good reason to add a new element, <yearofpub>, however I think it's unwarranted. In the book, I see something like: <copyright><year>1997</year> .. other info</copyright>. Although I could possibly use this, it's hardly accurate. Could this be added into the spec? Is there a workaround? Is there any reason I shouldn't be doing this? Kind Regards, Aidan
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