My tendency would be for CSL to stay out of the "styling/linking"
issue and leave that to individual implementations (in other words,
citeproc-hs or citerproc-js etc could accept flags for hyperlinking
citations etc.) The main reason would be that otherwise we'd have to
start duplicating styles with various styling implementations and that
sounds like a nightmare.
That said, for your particular issue:
I'm not sure what you're suggesting makes sense - the layout is for an
entire citation, which can contain multiple item, each of which can
have a URL, so you wouldn't want the URL in the layout field or rather
- which one would you want?). But you could, of course, easily do
something like
<layout prefix="(" suffix=")" delimiter="; ">
<group prefix="<a href='" suffix="</a>">
<text variable="URL" suffix="'>">
<text variable="title"/>
<text macro="author"/>
</group>
</layout>
with proper escaping, obviously.
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Carl Boettiger <cboet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I posted this question (text below) as a Github issue on the CSL pages and
> Rintze suggested I post it to this list as well.
>
> I would like to define a CSL file in which the in-text format includes a
> link to the resource. Can this be done in CSL by say, modifying the layout
> element appropriately? I cannot figure out how to use a variable in the
> prefix/suffix.
>
> I imagine a `<citation>` element looking something like this:
>
> <layout prefix="(<a href='URL'>" suffix="</a>)" delimiter="; ">
> <text macro="author-short"/>
> <text macro="issued" prefix=" "/>
> </layout>
>
>
> but cannot see how to get URL value from something like `<text macro="url">`
> into the prefix.
>
>
> Given the importance of web-based formats and the ease of using CSL to
> generate citations in markdown and html documents with tools such as pandoc,
> it seems natural that individuals would want to style in-text citations not
> only to reflect journal norms of author surnames etc, but include such
> features as actual links, perhaps add `title` attributes for mouse-over
> effects, and so forth. If this is not possible in the current
> implementation, is this something CSL might address in the future?
>
> I imagine that a flexible implementation of this could further be used to
> add semantic data to inline citations, e.g.
>
> <a rel="cito:UsesMethodIn"
> href="http://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-1-S1-S6";>Shotton (2010)<a/>
>
> Can any of this be done using the current schema? If not, is this a
> reasonable thing to work towards or should it be left to some other tool?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carl
>
> --
> Carl Boettiger
> UC Santa Cruz
> http://carlboettiger.info/
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