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In article <SPQR.90Sep28134319@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes:

   I have castigated Lou in private before, but I can't resist a public dig at
   the `holier than thou' TEI guidelines, which fails to do something as
   elementary as separating out the journal volume, number and pages. and
   doesn't even get the journal title correct! 

Yeah, I noticed that too -- the "DTD fragment for citation" that he
used looked pretty weak in comparison with what you'd need for a
full-blown standard bibliographic citation which you'd want to have
some hope of doing any typesetting with.

This came up in the context of the (as of yet only proposed)
comp.bibliography discussion.  There is an appropriately ugly ANSI
standard format for bibliographies, which is rich enough to encompass
all (most?) of the information various perverse journal formats need.
Software like Pro-Cite (from PBS Inc.) I think uses the ANSI
bibliography format as its internal representation for bibliographic
entries.

It would seem to be sensible to ask if there is an extant SGML encoding
and DTD which follows the ANSI standard (probably Z39.something, I don't
have the exact citation).  You'd hate to have to type it directly, of
course...

--Ed

Edward Vielmetti,  U of Michigan math dept  <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu>
whose first job at the U was parsing bibliographies with SNOBOL, ugh