[eXist-TEIXML] converting TEI bibliographies

[Sara L. U. <sar...@as...>]

Hi all,

I'm quite new to TEI/XML/eXist so this may be a basic question to ask,
but I didn't see anything like it in the archives.

I have a number of XML files each containing bibliographic details for
a single source marked up in TEI.  I want to convert these into
citations that display nicely in HTML. (Well, what I REALLY want is
something that will take bibtex citations, convert them into XML,
and then into HTML, but I suppose that's too much to ask for.)  If
all the citations contained the same info, it would be easy to write
a function to return the citation with proper formatting, on the
basis of the citation key.  But the sources I have are extremely
varied, and trying to embed in all the possibilities into if-then
clauses doesn't strike me as the most efficient.  Surely this is
something that many people have done before, and there's some code-
base out there that I could adapt, rather than write my own?

Thanks,
-Sara

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Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context"
Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies
Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg
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