pt wrote:
I thought I had an idea of how it might work with in-text citations that were essentially tokens referencing a bibliographic data store, but the psuedo code below seems to imply that the full bibliographic record would be in the citation. Or am I misreading it?
The plan has been that citations just become pointers to external bibliographic records; "external" in relation to content.xml, but still in the file wrapper. So the bibliographic store would be internal to the file. Otherwise the model is the same as the current DocBook processing, with the sole difference that the results of the transformation need to get inserted back into the citation elements. This is what the glue would do; collect the citations, an use them in conjunction with the bib data to run the file, and insert the results back.
That doesn't mean there isn't a general bibliographic database too. It's just that when one inserts a citation in a document, one is both adding the pointer, and the bibliographic record.
In the past, we had thought that would be an optional relationship; that a user could choose to embed, or not. I think that's not a good idea for a variety of reasons, and that it should be mandatory.
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