Re: Re: [docbook-apps] Biblioentry markup standards -- identifying the type of entry

On 11/06/2020 09:12, Norman Tovey-Walsh wrote:
> The bibliography stuff is a bit of a mess. It was originally cribbed
> from the Majour[1] standard in the very early 90’s, I believe, on the
> assumption that reuse was better than reinvention. I’m not sure what
> happened to Majour after that.

I think it got dropped on the floor. But it influenced lots of bib DTDs.

> There’s *A LOT* of variation in how citations are published.

And a lot of hypercritical readers who will find that misplaced comma :-)

> <biblioentry>
>    <citetitle pubwork="book">DocBook: The Definitive Guide</citetitle>

That's a nice idea.

> I think the title in a bibliography entry is more semantically a
> title citation than a title, so that’s my preference anyway. (In
> DocBook, a <title> is usually the the title of a thing, and that’s
> not what is going on in a bibliography.)

Not sure about that. If the entry is for a book, the title element 
probably need to be the title of the book, not the title of something else.

Peter
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