Re: [Biborb-general] trouble shooting questions

[Feiyi Wang]

Gardey,

> So, "update from BibTeX" means that BibORB will translate "sample.bib" 
> into "sample.xml" to update the database and "update from BibTeX" 
> "sample.xml" into "sample.bib". These two functions are useful if you 
> use an external editor to edit your bibliography in BibTeX format or 
> in XML.

This certainly helps a lot on my understanding :-) thanks

> If you want to import an existing bibliography, you should just copy 
> it to "sample.bib" and "update from BibTeX". BibORB will update the 
> XML and you will be able to browse your bibliography.
Since BibORB assumes that one would run it on some remote hosting 
server, for me, one crucial function  is to be able to download a bibtex 
output and use it for my paper writing. Now, I understand there will 
always be an up-to-date "sample.bib" there converted from its XML 
counterpart, but it would be quite an *inconvinence* to login to remote 
server and sftp it back. If this bib is going to open to public, most of 
the users may not have venue at all, so I regard this, i.e. "online 
download" an essential function. Any thought?

> It is exact there is no HTML output anywhere: pages are generated on 
> demand using PHP for the interface (menu) and XSLT to display entries.
I don't understand what you mean here: is blank page supposed to be 
normal in this case?


As a side note, I can think of seveal ways to implement both "download" 
and "import" function, should not be too difficult, you have laid the 
firm foundation there already. Unfortunately, I have never done much php 
programming (but I do know how to use python to get it done), so I am 
not much of a helper now. In general, I think the software is promising, 
I'd like to help in other ways.

Cheers,

Feiyi




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