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Subject: Re: [office] data templating (and citations)
Bruce D'Arcus said: > As many of you know, I've been trying to upgrade the ODF support for > citations. There are three aspects of this: the citation field, the > bibliographic metadata, and the configuration of the output formatting. > I'd like to address the last here. Currently, a bibliographic entry is > configured like this in ODF: ... > There are a few problems with this approach, and they mostly center on > the fact that it presumes the data will be there, and there is no > conditional logic. If there is no title, for example, there will be a > spurious comma. ... > To get around these limitations, I created a new citation style > language (CSL), which is independent of any particular document format. > It's now starting to be picked up by other projects, and is even used > with an MS Word plug-in now. ... > I see two options: > > 1) use CSL for configuration (either blessed by the ODF TC, or not) > > 2) adapt the logic of CSL to the existing ODF templating and > bibliography configuration system > I agree that some sort of conditional formatting is necessary. OpenDocument's citation system is a great step forward, but I can't currently use it in many circumstances (and have to do it in the old way like Word) because there aren't conditionals (e.g., "include a comma only if there's some data following" and so on). Is there some reason that XSLT (or some subset of it) was not used? --- David A. Wheeler
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