Thanks Bob. That's an interesting thought, but I think my project needs a bit 
more--I have folks writing using multiple citations that should be grouped 
(like in BibTeX). This  get me thinking though, thanks for the info.

--Tim Arnold


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:b...@sagehill.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 4:54 PM
> To: Tim Arnold; DocBook Apps
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] author-year citations
> 
> Hi,
> Have you considered using the <abbrev> element for citations?  See this
> reference for an example:
> 
> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CiteBiblio.html
> 
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> b...@sagehill.net
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Arnold" <tim.arn...@sas.com>
> To: "DocBook Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 1:06 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] author-year citations
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I've got my citations in my docbook document and a docbook xml formatted
> bibliography. I can create the bibliography myself in postprocessing (using
> lxml and python), but I'm stumped on how to get author-year style citations.
> 
> I have a book of many chapters, with each chapter having its own
> bibliography.  However,  I need to process the book as a whole since I need
> htmlhelp and a full index and toc xml files for later processing.
> 
> I wonder if it is too hard to write the xsl  to convert the citation to html
> in the author-year style?
> Is that too big of a task for an XSL newbie?
> 
> thanks,
> --Tim Arnold
> 
> 
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