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[Refdb-devel] pickref vs. notes feature

[Michael S. <sm...@xm...>]

Is the experimental notes feature intended as a replacement for the
pickref and updateref -P functionality? I ask because I'm wondering
whether I should take the time to try to implement support for pickref
and updateref -P.

  --Mike

Re: [Refdb-devel] pickref vs. notes feature

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

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 19:27:35 +0900, "Michael Smith" <sm...@xm...>
said:
> Is the experimental notes feature intended as a replacement for the
> pickref and updateref -P functionality?

Markus can correct me if I'm wrong, but answer is "no."  It is a
supplement, to handle free-standing notes that have links to
bibliographic records.  For example, say you want to attach a note to an
author...

Bruce

Re: [Refdb-devel] pickref vs. notes feature

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

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > 
 > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 19:27:35 +0900, "Michael Smith" <sm...@xm...>
 > said:
 > > Is the experimental notes feature intended as a replacement for the
 > > pickref and updateref -P functionality?
 > 
 > Markus can correct me if I'm wrong, but answer is "no."  It is a
 > supplement, to handle free-standing notes that have links to
 > bibliographic records.  For example, say you want to attach a note to an
 > author...
 > 

No need to correct this! I'm currently trying to get the documentation
in sync with the code. This will make it a little easier to understand
what the extended notes are good for and how they should be used.

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-devel] xlink?

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

Mike,

Do you know much about xlink?  

The following example was posted to the MODS list, which strikes me as
quite interesting. This suggests it ought to be possible to link chapters
to books and articles to journals as well...

I'm unclear on how an XSLT processor handles these links though, as my
initial experiments (with an external file containing just journal names)
didn't work. 

Bruce

<mods>
   <titleInfo>
      <title>Names are a pain in the butt</title>
   </titleInfo>
   <name xlink:href="#name.Robert.Smith">
      <role><roleTerm type="code">aut</roleTerm></role>
      <displayForm>Bob Smith</displayForm>
   </name>
</mods>
<!-- Somewhere else in the file: -->
<mods ID="name.Robert.Smith">
   <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="family">Smith</namePart>
      <namePart type="given">Robert</namePart>
   </name>
   <note type="biographical">...</note>
   <!-- and so forth -->
</mods>

Re: [Refdb-devel] xlink?

[Michael S. <sm...@xm...>]

Hi Bruce,

You wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> Do you know much about xlink?

Not much, actually

> The following example was posted to the MODS list, which strikes me as
> quite interesting. This suggests it ought to be possible to link chapters
> to books and articles to journals as well...
> 
> I'm unclear on how an XSLT processor handles these links though, as my
> initial experiments (with an external file containing just journal names)
> didn't work. 

I don't think XSLT processors are designed to do anything special with
xlink attributes. I think they see them as being just like any other
attribute. To do anything with document instances that contain xlinks, I
think you need to use stylesheets that are set up to process them.

I'm not sure what exactly you mean about linking chapters
to books and articles to journals, but if you're talking about
cross-document links, I don't think xlink is going to do any magic as
far as that goes. Even with your stylesheets set up to process xlinks,
if you want to link to something that's in a different physical file,
you'll either need to just use an absolute URI to it, or use something
like the DocBook olink mechanism that Bob Stayton added support for to
the DocBook XSLT stylesheets.

  --Mike