On 5 May 2009, at 4:02 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On May 5, 2009, at 3:32 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>>>> It would be great to test for equality of records modulo author
>>>> name for the
>>>> same record retrieved via the regular parser.
>>>
>>> There'll be some differences, since I don't attempt to handle all of
>>> the
>>> fields.  The XML format documentation seems strongly oriented  
>>> towards
>>> @article types, so I'd be curious as to how a proceedings or book
>>> with an
>>> editor is handled.  I think I've done a better job at handling MeSH
>>> headings
>>> and keyword lists, but a bunch of stuff is just ignored since it  
>>> looks
>>> irrelevant (e.g. status, ownership).  Additions would be up to the
>>> PubMed-using crowd.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Adam
>>>
>>
>>
>> This line in the DTD may be relevant:
>>
>> <!ELEMENT Book (%PubDate.Ref;, Publisher, Title, AuthorList?,
>>                CollectionTitle?, Volume?)>
>
> What DTD did you find that in?

NLMCommon DTD from <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/DTD/index.html 
 >.

> I have yet to see a book example, and there's no point in adding  
> code without a test case.  Book doesn't appear in the type list, and  
> there's no element description for CollectionTitle at 
> http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/licensee/elements_descriptions.html 
> .
>
>> Also ElocationID (DOI) and PublicationTypeList may be interesting.
>
> I get DOI from PubmedData/ArticleIDList/ArticleID, and haven't yet  
> seen an actual use of ElocationID.
>
> I looked at PublicationTypeList originally, but most of them don't  
> map to BibTeX in a straightforward way (Twin Study?  Randomized  
> Controlled Trial?  Festschrift?).  All the metadata provided is  
> geared towards @article types, so that seems a sensible default.

It's precisely this kind of questions, that I cannot answer and are a  
lot of work to figure out (especially if you're not a user) why I  
don't want to do it ;-)

Christiaan


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