bib2xml
bib2xml
bib2xml converts a BibTeX-formatted reference file to an XML-intermediate bibliography file.
Usage
Specify file(s) to be converted on the command line. Files containing BibTeX substitutions strings should be specified before the files where substitutions are specified (or in the same file before their use). If no files are specified, then BibTeX information will be read from standard in.
bib2xml BibTeX_file.bib > output_file.xml
Flags
Several flags available for input and MODS XML output:
| Flag | Description |
|---|---|
| -h, --help | display help |
| -v, --version | display version |
| -a, --add-refcount | add "_#", where # is reference count to reference id |
| -s, --single-refperfile | put one reference per file name by the reference number |
| -i, --input-encoding | interpret the input file as using the requested character set (use w/o argument for current list of character sets) unicode is now a character set option |
| -u, --unicode-characters | encode unicode characters directly in the file rather than as XML entities (default) |
| -un,--unicode-no-bom | as -u, but don't include a byte order mark |
| -x, --xml-entities | change default UTF8-encoded characters to XML entities (opposite of -u) |
| -nl,--no-latex | do not covert latex character combinations (bib2xml) |
| -d, --drop-key | don't put citation key in the mods id field |
| -c, --corporation-file | with argument specifying a file containing a list of corporation names to be placed in <name type="corporate"></name> instead of type="personal" and eliminate name mangling |
| -as, --asis | specify file of names that shouldn't be mangled |
| -nt, --nosplit-title | don't split titles into TITLE/SUBTITLE pairs |
| --verbose | verbose output |
| --debug | very verbose output (mostly for debugging) |
