[Bibtexml-users] Representing external file links in BibTeXML

[Morten O. A. <mor...@gm...>]

Hi,

my name is Morten Alver, and I manage the JabRef project. JabRef
supports import and export of BibTeXML files, but due to a specific
new feature in the next version of JabRef I have a question about how
file links should best be represented in BibTeXML.

In the new version of JabRef, each BibTeX entry can contain an
arbitrary number of links to external files or websites. Each link is
associated with a file type and an optional description text. This
information is encoded using a simple string representation in a field
called "file".

When exporting such entries to BibTeXML, instead of writing the "file"
field in its JabRef-specific format, we can encode this information in
a way that makes sense in the BibTeXML format. The submitter of this
bug made two suggestions for how to do that:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1758882&group_id=92314&atid=600306

Is there any official position on how this could best be represented
in BibTeXML? If there is, or if we could agree on a standard
representation, we would be happy to follow that.


Sincerely,
Morten O. Alver