xml2bib: chapter title and book title not converted propertly

[vivek botcha]

Hi,

While converting chapter mods xml to bibtex with xml2bib 5.7, we've found that title and booktitle are not converted the way we expected.

For example

$ cat mods
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<modsCollection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
<mods>
    <titleInfo>
        <title>chapter title</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
    <genre>book chapter</genre>
    <relatedItem type="host">
        <titleInfo>
           <title>book title</title>
        </titleInfo>
    </mods>
</modsCollection>

$ ./xml2bib --version
xml2bib, bibutils suite version 5.7 date 2016-02-15

$ ./xml2bib mods
@Inbook{ref1,
chapter="chapter title",
title="book title"
}

xml2bib: Processed 1 references.

Instead, we expected the bibtex to be

@Inbook{ref1,
title="chapter title",
bookTitle="book title"
}

It looks like the tags get converted in bibtexout.c. We've tried a quick change that seem to generate it as we expect.

$ diff -u bibutils_5.7.bak/lib/bibtexout.c bibutils_5.7/lib/bibtexout.c
--- bibutils_5.7.bak/lib/bibtexout.c    2016-05-09 11:11:01.929326653 +0100
+++ bibutils_5.7/lib/bibtexout.c    2016-05-09 11:12:21.381326792 +0100
@@ -583,16 +583,13 @@
    output_people( fp, info, refnum, "TRANSLATOR", "TRANSLATOR:CORP", "TRANSLATOR:ASIS", "translator", -1, p->format_opts );

    /* item=main level title */
-   if ( type==TYPE_INBOOK )
-       output_title( fp, info, refnum, "chapter", 0, p->format_opts );
-   else
-       output_title( fp, info, refnum, "title", 0, p->format_opts );
+   output_title( fp, info, refnum, "title", 0, p->format_opts );

    /* item=host level title */
    if ( type==TYPE_ARTICLE )
        output_title( fp, info, refnum, "journal", 1, p->format_opts );
    else if ( type==TYPE_INBOOK ) {
-       output_title( fp, info, refnum, "title", 1, p->format_opts );
+       output_title( fp, info, refnum, "bookTitle", 1, p->format_opts );
        output_title( fp, info, refnum, "series", 2, p->format_opts );
    }
    else if ( type==TYPE_INPROCEEDINGS || type==TYPE_INCOLLECTION ) {

Do you think that this change would be a good idea? Could it be included in bibutils?

Thanks,
IT Development Team,
SpringerNature,
London.

[Chris Putnam]

This is correct. Clearly I was getting confused between chapter/title for @inbook. The patch looks right too. I'm running it through my regression suite now, but I suspect that I'll be uploading this fix soonish.

[vivek botcha]

Thanks Chris Putnam for looking into this:)

[Chris Putnam]

This is now updated in the fixed version 5.8.