What Sebastian said. CSL is agnostic about output format, and it's up to
implementations to sort out these details.
On May 27, 2014 2:47 PM, "Sebastian Karcher" <karc...@u.northwestern.edu>
wrote:
> 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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