#768: BibFormat: support non-HTML output modes easier (a simple tag?)
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Reporter: jblayloc | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: BibFormat | Version:
Keywords: |
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It would be really nice if there were an obvious way to produce non-HTML
output in BFTs, for, e.g., production of raw LaTeX or csv. I guess what
I'm imagining is being able to have a BFT like:
{{{
<bft:setnohtml>
<name>my cool format</name>
<description>it formats things coolly</description>
% and now everything we put in that isn't explicitly a <name>, a
<description>
% or a <bfe_foo> gets passed to the browser uninterpreted.
% this is not really different from how it works now, except that the bft:
tag
% above says to not wrap the output in any of the normal page template
% boilerplate
This is a valid, though boring, \latex document.
<BFE_PRODUCE_SOME_INTERESTING_STUFF arg1=val1 arg2=val2 arg3=val3>
}}}
As far as I can tell, if this flag existed and were used liberally, a lot
of the output special casing in search_engine could be simplified, and it
might even be possible to implement things like atom feeds as BFTs.
I like the bibformat system so I think this would be a pretty big win.
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Ticket URL: <http://invenio-software.org/ticket/768>
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