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Endnote xml file not parsing correctly

Fahad
2021-11-09
2021-11-15
  • Fahad

    Fahad - 2021-11-09

    Hello sir,

    First up, thank you for the awesome bibutils, they are a gem for the community.
    Secondly I wanted to share a problem related to an Endnote XML file conversion.
    When I ran endx2xml on the file, it failed to parse the title of the publication.
    I have attached the xml files for reference. Please help me in this matter.

    Thanks,
    Fahad

     
  • Chris Putnam

    Chris Putnam - 2021-11-12

    Thanks for the report. I found the bug that was preventing titles from being output properly. I will upload a fixed version shortly.

    I've also solved one problem parsing the names in this file.

    However, I wonder if the names in the Endnote file aren't entered correctly. The format of the names really confuses my name parsing algorithms and I suspect that Endnote will generate odd names from them as well.

    For example, in the second reference you have:

    Alexander A. Samuel
    and Bruin, De Arie
    and Kornet D J

    But after looking up the reference, I suspect that it should be:

    Alexander A. Samuel
    and Arie de Bruin
    and D. J. Kornet

    or

    Samuel, Alexander A
    and de Bruin, Arie
    and Koren, D. J.

    Similarly, the last reference has:

    Gaucher A. Eric
    and Kratzer, T. James
    and Randall N Ryan

    but I suspect that it should be something like

    Gaucher, Eric A.
    and Kratzer, James T.
    and Randall, Ryan N.

    Thanks.

    Chris.

     
  • Fahad

    Fahad - 2021-11-15

    Thanks Chris for the quick reply, yes author names are not correct in the file. Actually I exported this file from mendeley and I can not recall where have I imported these references in my mendeley library. I will correct author names in my mendeley library.
    Also thank you for fixing title issue so fast, can you give any ETA when this fix will be available in latest release?

    Thanks,
    Fahad

     
  • Chris Putnam

    Chris Putnam - 2021-11-15

    The latest version (7.2) has this fix in it. Let me know if you see any more issues.

    Thanks again.

    Chris.

     

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