Re: text to bibliography?

I have, of course, many articles with bibliographies, and it would be
a lot quicker to insert tab delimiters -- or even a code -- before
each element in each entry in the list, so that the bibliography
database could be created/added to (as if a computer were involved)
without retyping every entry in toto

I should hope the software is smart enough to realize that the
"Author" of a journal article is the same sort of beast as the
"Author" of a book!

On Aug 14, 10:02 am, p0 <yves.dho...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 14 aug, 13:53, grammatim <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The latest estimate is that I'll have my new computer (with Office 07)
this afternoon ...

Is there a way to convert an existingbibliography, i.e. formatted
list of references, into a Word 2007 table of sources (or whatever
it's called) -- are they, like, like Excel tables, or (heaven forfend)
Access tables, so that something along the lines of tab delimiters
might work?

I'm not really sure what you are trying to accomplish.

Some background: in Word 2007, bibliographic entries are actually
stored inside a custom XML file in the docx. The file, often called
item1.xml, has the following format:

<b:Sources SelectedStyle="\something.xsl" StyleName="A style called
something" xmlns:b="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/
2006/bibliography" xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/
officeDocument/2006/bibliography">
<b:Source>...<b:Source>
<b:Source>...<b:Source>
<b:Source>...<b:Source>
</b:Sources>

where every b:Source element represents a bibliographic source. For a
description of the content of a b:Source element, you can check out
section 7.6 of http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Office%2...

Then, when the sources need to be displayed, one of the stylesheets
with the different bibliographic styles (APA, MLA, ...) gets a piece
of XML containing one or more b:Source elements and outputs a piece of
HTML. That HTML is then displayed in Word 2007 as your in-text
citation or bibliography.

Doing the reverse operation (at least that's what I think you try to
do) is not possible. You could try to create your own parser for that
but it seems overly complex to me. How would you expect a parser to be
able to identify the type of a bibliographic entry: Book, BookSection,
JournalArticle, ArticleInAPeriodical, ... And how would you make the
difference between the different contributors of a work: Author,
Artist, Editor, Translator, Writer, Producer, Performer, ...

If references to a work are available online somewhere, it might be
possible to more easily get them that way according to the following
articlehttp://savas.parastatidis.name/2007/01/25/595c0ffb-6595-41bb-9f81-952....
However, I have never seen any code actually doing this and as far as
I know, Microsoft pulled the plug on their academic search.

BR,

Yves
--http://www.codeplex.com/bibliography

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