[Refdb-users] (no subject)

[Chris K. <ch...@ka...>]

Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>

Hi Markus,


> I guess the problem you ran into is related to the fact that many of
> your database entries lack the author string. Would you mind trying
> again, giving each entry at least one mock author? If this fixes your
> problem, I can go back to the sources and try to work around the
> problem.

Indeed, this fixed the problem: I supplied an author name to every bibliographic
entry I use and that error went away. I remember reading in the (excellent)
documentation that only one or two fields are required to be filled (I think TY and
something else), but the Author field was not mentioned in this context. So I guess
it is some bug you will be able to locate and fix after this information - if you
need more, just contact me. Bear in mind that I have a lot of "electronic" entries
(TY=ELEC), if this makes a difference (but why should it?).

> If this does not fix your problem, please send me a complete
> set of data (RIS input file, SGML document, the commands you run to
> cause the problem) off-list.
>

Well, I get a new behaviour now: the only thing I see is

POS

then it ends without any error messages and the .bib.sgml file is empty! The id.xml
file is filled, though (it was filled even with the previous error).

I tried it with both IDs and citation keys in my citations - same result.

I have searched the code a little and saw that this "POS" should actually be, sent
to the refdb server - why do I see it on the command line output?

I included the refdb catalog file in my SGML_CATALOG_FILES, but did not change
anything:

SGML_CATALOG_FILES="/usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.iso_ent"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbook-dsssl-stylesheets"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbook_3"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbook_4"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/openjade/catalog"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/stylesheets/sgmltools/sgmltools.cat"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/dtd/sgmltools/catalog"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/refdb/refdb.cat"
export SGML_CATALOG_FILES

I use:

expat-1.95.2-15
docbook_3-3.1-98
docbook_4-4.1-97
docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-1.72-34
docbook-xml-website-2.0a2-27
docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.42-34
html-dtd-2001.11.7-0
iso_ent-2000.11.03-122
jade_dsl-1.2.1-369
openjade-1.3-289
sgmltools-lite-3.0.2-164
tei-3-331

all from SuSE. I have the feeling that I may be missing something that has to do
with XML processing, since I concentrate on SGML and never bothered with XML. Let me
know what other you need.

It would be great if I could get this to work, because I am trying to incorporate it
in a "LyX-SGML" framework: you write in LyX, the rest is done by some scripts of
mine. I don't want to tell my users "supply your own bibliography SGML file". Refdb
would fit perfectly here in supplying it.

I appreciate your patience with my rants. I am not as cool as I would like to be
lately.

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Regards

Chris Karakas
http://www.karakas-online.de

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Regards

Chris Karakas
http://www.karakas-online.de