[xbiblio-devel] conditional? effects on design?

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

Simon,

Did you get a chance to look into the conditional I added to the schema?

Also, you mentioned it simplifies things. Am wondering with where we're 
at what a clean design for a CSL implementation (and maybe API)?

The API issue is important, BTW, in part because of intersections with 
word-processors. Like OOo has a bib API; figuring out an API for this 
processing is in part about figuring out how to fit it into OOo.

Was just looking again at how I had been doing the Ruby port, and 
wondering is something simpler would work; like starting with ...

# reads a CSL file and creates an object
class CSL
   attr_reader :meta, :general, :citation, :bibliography
   def initialize(meta=[], general=[], citation=[], bibliography=[])
     @meta = meta
     @general = general
     @citation = citation
     @bibliography = bibliography
   end
end

class Template
   attr_reader :name, :fields
   def initialize(name=nil, fields=[])
     @name = name
     @fields = fields
   end
end

class Field
   attr_reader :name, :style, :prefix, :suffix, :substitute
   def initialize(name=nil, style=nil, prefix=nil, suffix=nil, 
substitute=nil)
     @name = name
     @style = style
     @prefix = prefix
     @suffix = suffix
     @substitute = substitute
   end
end