Re: [eXist-TEIXML] converting TEI bibliographies

[Martin H. <mh...@uv...>]

Hi Sara,

You might want to take a look at the Zotero project, and specifically 
its Translators, which are designed to convert bibliographic references 
between various formats:

<https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators>

You might find some code there that you can use.

This is a notoriously difficult area, though. How is your source 
information encoded in TEI? Do you have <biblStruct>s, <bibl>s, 
<biblFull>s or full <teiHeader>s as a starting point?

Cheers,
Martin

On 14-03-18 01:37 AM, Sara L. Uckelman wrote:
> 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
>