Re: [Refdb-users] cannot add records!

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

Re: this web interface:

On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:08 PM, Matt Price wrote:

> It's more or less live on the web at:
>
> http://www.racesci.org/bibliographies/dataBase/dbQuery.php
>
> you can see there are one or two parsing issues to work out still
> (quotation marks in titles, I notice).  but the code produced here is 
> much
> close to what I want than the html that refdb produces natively...
> hence my attraction.

The underling HTML code is a little ugly, but the outward appearance is 
nice enough.  All you really need is a way to get back some (X)HTML 
code that has formatted references, each of them wrapped in a div 
element with a class attribute.  That way you can do all the styling 
with CSS.  I'm even willing to help there if need be.  I've actually 
been playing with CSS + XSLT rendering of this stuff with the eXist XML 
DB, which uses Cocoon.  They thing is that it is using XSLT to 
transform XML (in this case MODS) into HTML, and then CSS is doing 
almost all the formatting work.

Bruce

PS - The "submit" button at the bottom of the screen is confusing 
(shouldn't it say "view"?).