[Glastonbury] auto-generation of bibliographic references

[Martin Wheeler]

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I think I've just solved your bibliographic references problem.
(I ran into the same problem myself this last week, so have been busy 
searching through scholarly publications on the web.)

The solution is called 'RefDB' -- a toolset which supports DocBook SGML 
and XML, as well as TEI XML documents -- out of the box.
(Some humanities projects actually stipulate the use of TEI.)

In order to get a bibliography for your document, all you need to do is to 
enter the quotations into the text. (This is done within the limits of the 
original DTDs, so the documents that you write will validate against the 
unaltered DTDs. No problem.)  When the document is then processed with the 
RefDB tools, a list of cited references is extracted from your document. 
RefDB will then look up these references in the database, and create a 
suitable bibliography file. This file can be inserted as an external 
entity into your document.

Cool or what?

There are some very good examples of various types of bibliography 
produced this way, at:

      http://refdb.sourceforge.net/

Have fun.
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