xml2bib reorders given name

[Dan Gildea]

xml2bib seems to be re-ordering components of a given name if there
are spaces in the field. For example, with the input file:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<mods ID='J14-1002' version='2016-09-11 21:27:59 +0200'>
  <titleInfo><title>Frame-Semantic Parsing</title></titleInfo>
  <name type='personal'>
    <namePart type='given'>Noah A.</namePart>
    <namePart type='family'>Smith</namePart>
    <role><roleTerm authority='marcrelator' type='text'>author</roleTerm></role>
  </name>
  <genre>academic journal</genre>
</mods>

I get the output file:

@Article{J14-1002,
author="Smith, A. Noah",
title="Frame-Semantic Parsing"
}

Is this a bug?

Thanks.

[Chris Putnam]

It's unexpected behavior, so it's a bug.

The fix is a little tricky due to the recursive algorithm that lib/modsin.c uses on names. (The MODS files that bibutils writes are parsed a bit more finely than your example, which is why I haven't noticed this bug before. But bibutils should "do the right thing" with that file too.) I just fixed it after changing the way the algorithm works. The new version (5.9) should fix these cases.

Thanks for letting me know.

[Dan Gildea]

Thank you so much! That really helps me out.