Re: [Refdb-users] DOI and edition

[Stephan G. <st...@ga...>]

Hi!

> Unless your mail agent unvoluntarily edited your input file, the "ER"
> tag lacks a trailing space. The RIS spec is pretty clear about the
> fact that each tag ends with two spaces, a dash, and another
> space. The parser does not recognize "ER  -" as a tag and reads it as
> another line of the preceding M3 field. This does not quite explain why
> the "ER  -" string is duplicated though, but you should try again
> using a correctly terminated RIS entry, i.e. "ER  - ".

Thanks for your hint with the trailing space, but again, I'm not really 
a RIS specialist...

> I see that the edition information is missing from the DocBook
> output. I'll look into this as soon as time permits.

I just ran the code through the debugger.

In backend-db31.c:879 is the call to get_refdb_volume which itself calls

result = dbi_result_get_string(dbires, "refdb_volume");

This call always returns NULL.

In comparison, in backend-risx.c:864 is also the call to 
get_refdb_volume. But if this call fails, it calls get_refdb_edition in 
the else clause. This call succeeds.

So for me it seems that the RIS VL tag will be found in "refdb_edition" 
and not in "refdb_volume".

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Stephan