Richard Hamilton <
hamilton@xmlpress.net> writes:
> I’m posting this to the DocBook mailing list, but double posting do
> DocBook-apps because the discussion started on that list.
>
> Background: I’ve been using bibliomixed for XML Press publications. I
> would like to move to using biblioentry, so I can cover more than one
> output style. We primarily use the Chicago Manual of Style as our
> guide, but I would like to be able to easily use other styles.
The bibliography stuff is a bit of a mess. It was originally cribbed
from the Majour[1] standard in the very early 90’s, I believe, on the
assumption that reuse was better than reinvention. I’m not sure what
happened to Majour after that.
> My objective is to create (over time) customizations that would take a
> biblioentry in a consistent format and generate output that conforms
> to Chicago, APA, and other styles.
I’m going to repeat myself and say that I think adopting a mechanism for
generating them that reuses BibTeX or the open citation work I pointed
to before or something else is better than one-offing it. There’s *A
LOT* of variation in how citations are published.
> This first issue I’ve uncovered is the question of how to identify
> what kind of entry an instance is (e.g., book, article, etc.).
>
> I can find no standard method for doing that in DocBook, including the
> Publisher’s schema..
I think your best bet is:
<biblioentry>
<citetitle pubwork="book">DocBook: The Definitive Guide</citetitle>
> Certain types can be guessed at by looking at biblioset (if it’s used)
> or the pubwork attribute on citetitle (if citetitle is used rather
> than title).
I think the title in a bibliography entry is more semantically a title
citation than a title, so that’s my preference anyway. (In DocBook, a