Re: [Refdb-users] Endnote to RIS to RefDB troubles

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

Marc Baaden writes:
 > - books and ser entries are sparely handled (eg no publisher, city
 >   or editors) by the output filter. Needed to add that info in by
 >   hand :(
 >   Actually it would be simpler to export rather a bit too much, as
 >   removing tags from an xml file is not too difficult with a simple
 >   perl script (did that this weekend)

You're right about that. Attribute this to my laziness. This issue has
come up just recently, and I put on my todo list to treat the DocBook
(and TEI, if possible) output in the same way as e.g. the screen
output. Whenever it creates legal markup you'll be able to request
specific fields with the -s switch.

Would you mind sending me a couple of sample datasets by private mail?
I'm mostly working with journal articles so I rarely run into these
problems.

 > 
 > - it wasn't possible to retrieve the references in a given order ..
 >   (.. so I retrieved them one by one in the order I needed and mangled
 >    the xml files with very badly written scripts .. but it worked in
 >    the end)
 > 

getref currently sorts the output either by ID or by PY by using the
-S switch. Fancy sorting is only implemented in the bibliography
backend.

 > - I also first had tried to select a subset of references, using pickref,
 >   but that didn't seem to work/do anything other than throw
 > 
 > duplicate ID 1 ignored
 > 0 datasets added to personal interest list, 1 ignored
 > 
 >   at me ..
 > 

This is most likely a misunderstanding. If you added these datasets
yourself, they're in your personal reference list anyway. Running
pickref again won't do any good.

 >   Is there a prefered way to retrieve a given selection of references from
 >   a database ? (And even better, in a given order ?)
 > 

I'm not sure whether I grasp what you want to do, but you can cobble
together your query using the screen output until you get all
references you need. Then rerun this query with the -t db31 switch to
save the results to a file.

regards,
Markus

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