On Feb 5, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
Just for the record: RefDB does not support extended citations because
so far DocBook (and the other supported types, for that matter) had no
means to code them in your documents.
For the record, yes, Markus is right; the limitation is across the
board in XML document formats, and not Markus' fault.
At one level I find this surprising, given that citations ought to be
exactly the sort of thing that XML (and XSLT) should excel at; the kind
of thing for which these standards were designed. OTOH, when you
consider that free software hackers are very rarely scholars, it starts
to make sense ;-)
There was simply no possibility to support it without resorting to
ridiculous hacks.
This is only if you accept the need to keep strictly to the DTD, and
not to use any customization layers. DocBook was always conceived as
an interchange format; not strictly a complete solution. It would have
been possible to implement biblioref quite apart from the TC and then
have a stylesheet that converted the elements to xrefs for
interchange...
Still, the issue is moot now that we'll finally have this added to
DocBook and, hopefully, OpenOffice. I'm still unclear if TEI needs
this or not. A quick chat with Sebastian Rahtz seems to suggest it
does, but Peter seemed to be saying otherwise. Would be nice to come
to a conclusion on this.
Bruce
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