Re: [Jabref-users] Export to Docbook using XSL

[Christopher O. <oe...@oe...>]

Hi Kariem,
   we have recently introduced a Plugin-Architecture to JabRef, that allows  
you to implement such a feature in a completely stand-alone manner. In the  
end you provide just a compiled jar that people can now drop into a  
plug-in folder beside their jabref jar and your plugin starts working. If  
the plugin then becomes popular we can easily integrate into the core  
distribution.

We do not have a lot of documentation yet, but it essentially boils down  
to creating a new plugin.xml file and defining which class provides your  
new exporter and then implementing the associated interface.

Have a look at the plugin.xml in /src/plugins/ and let me know if you have  
questions.

Cheers,
   Christopher

On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:50:14 +0200, Kariem Hussein <ka...@us...>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been a Jabref user since 2005 and always used it to organize my
> references before exporting to docbook. I have created a custom
> exporter and changed some of the source code to more easily export
> complicated entries to biblioentries with custom reflabels or abbrevs.
>
> My adaptions do not work in a current version of Jabref: I did the
> latest merge in version 2.2. That is why I'd liked to propose a
> different approach than the one I have been pursuing until now.
>
> I would like to add a formatter that exports the bibtex entry as a
> simple XML element. A user's custom formatter may then use XSL to
> format the results into whatever the user needs, may it be for docbook
> or any other format.
>
> I would like to know some things before starting:
>
>  - Is this interesting for someone else than me?
>
>  - As this would change the custom export configuration (Menu: Options
>> Manage custom exports) which is visible to the user, are there any
> guidelines or approaches I should take into consideration?
>
>  - What type of contribution is appreciated by the development team? I
> don't want to put additional work on the team, if I can do it right in
> the first place. I was thinking about a diff to CVS Head (or a
> branch/tag?), unit tests, example XSLs for my use case scenario
>
> I hope that I could communicate my point,
> Kariem
>
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