Re: [xbiblio-devel] Using citeproc implementation for third-party applications

[Andrea R. <and...@in...>]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:18:35AM -0700, panyasan wrote:
> Andrea, thank you. My problem is that I would need a binary that I
> can configure with command-line options. I don't know Haskell, so I
> cannot write it myself. Maybe this would be a useful addition to
> your library that would not need much documentation? Something that
> can be compiled on each platform and then called like
> 
> citeproc-hs --style apa.cls --infile myreferences.txt --bibdata mybibdb.bib --format bibtex --outfile bibliography.html --format html
> 
> or something like this? The command line parameters would not need
> to change at all even when you refactor your code.

Writing something like this would be trivial, except for the fact that
the html format is not supported yet (due for 0.3 and needed for the
test suite).

citeproc-hs is a library: writing C bindings should be easy (BTW there
are pandoc C bindings, so...:-). Which means that writing a PHP
extension that calls citeproc-hs directly should be easy too (even
though I'm not sure I'd be able to do it). Easier then writing a PHP
implementation from scratch I think (I've never read the code of the
implementation there were rumors about, even thought I'd have loved
to).

The API is going to change a bit in the next few weeks - needed by the
most recent additions to CSL -, but I would like to have a more stable
API along with CSL 1.0, so I would expect something like what you
would like to see could be feasible by the end of the summer,
reasonably.

Andrea