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Re: citation processing

Subject: Re: citation processing
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:20:21 +0100
word 2007 parse citation
> Actually it gets written by hand all the time, 
yes true, really, I've even written a few like that myself when I used
to write papers with sums in rather than just writing about writing
papers:-) But more than once when I've been faced with the problem 
of doing this, further enquiries revealed that there was in fact some
strucured source somewhere. Even if you haven't got bibtex (say) it's a
lot easier to parse a bibtex input entry than its output. So it's always
worth enquiring if there is some marked up form. That said it's more likely
in my field than in others where (for several decades at least) everyone
used TeX and no one would dream of using any kind of word processor,
there's a good chance that you can find something marked up, somewhere.
It may have \ and { rather than < and & but still, markup is markup...

> Bruce D'Arcus was working for some time on generalized processing for 
> citations: see his blog at

yes but (as far as I understood it) Bruce was going the other way wasn't
he? going from an XML "database" of references and a style specification
to generate the kind of author-name citation style showed in the
original post.


> One of the besetting problems with citations is that people are 
> commonly under the impression that they are much more systematic and 
> regular than they  actually are in real life.

Yes, which is why I originally suggested that you might want something
with a bit more fuzzy flexibility than a regexp replace available in
xslt. It's alright specifying that author names , dates, titles, journal
titles are sepated by . : ; or whatever, but the real question is what
did the author put in the text when referencing  some unpublished untitled
letter where half the fields are meaningless...

David

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