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Hans Hagen wrote:
a more mkiv-ish approach is:
As even I don't quite understand this: could you or someone else perhaps illuminate this code with explanations? It would make an interesting article/wiki page, I think. Best wishes, Taco
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% <bibtex> % <entry tag="hagen:tb19-3-311" category="article"> % <field name="number">3</field> % <field name="bibdate">Fri Jul 13 10:24:20 MDT 2007</field> % <field name="author">Hans Hagen</field> % <field name="journal">TUGboat</field> % <field name="title">{Visual Debugging in \TeX, Part 1: The Story}</field> % <field name="ISSN">0896-3207</field> % <field name="year">1998</field> % <field name="pages">311--317</field> % <field name="volume">19</field> % </entry> % </bibtex>
\def\MF {MF} \def\MP {MP} \def\TUB {TUGboat} \def\Mc {Mac} \def\sltt{\tt} \let\acro\firstofoneargument
\usemodule[abr-01]
\definebibtexsession [somebibtex]
\registerbibtexfile [somebibtex] [tugboat.bib] \registerbibtexfile [somebibtex] [komoedie.bib]
\preparebibtexsession [somebibtex] % [convert]
\startxmlsetups bibtex:one \starttabulate[|Bl|p|] \NC tag \NC \xmlatt{#1}{tag} \NC\NR \NC author\NC \xmlfilter{#1}{/field[@name='author']/context()} \NC\NR \NC title \NC \xmlfilter{#1}{/field[@name='title' ]/context()} \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups bibtex:bibtex \xmlfilter{#1}{ /entry[@category='article'] /field[@name='author' and (find(text(),'Hans Hagen') or find(text(),'Taco Hoekwater'))] /../command(bibtex:one) } \stopxmlsetups
\applytobibtexsession[somebibtex][bibtex]
\page
\startxmlsetups bibtex:entry:getkeys \xmladdsortentry{bibtex}{#1} {\xmlfilter{#1}{/field[@name='author']/text()}} \xmladdsortentry{bibtex}{#1} {\xmlfilter{#1}{/field[@name='year' ]/text()}} \xmladdsortentry{bibtex}{#1} {\xmlatt{#1}{tag}} \stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:bibtex:sorter \xmlresetsorter{bibtex} % \xmlfilter{#1}{entry/command(bibtex:entry:getkeys)} \xmlfilter{#1}{ bibtex /entry[@category='article'] /field[@name='author' and find(text(),'Knuth')] /../command(bibtex:entry:getkeys)} \xmlsortentries{bibtex} \xmlflushsorter{bibtex}{bibtex:entry:flush} \stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups bibtex:entry:flush \xmlfilter{#1}{/field[@name='author']/context()} / % \xmlfilter{#1}{/field[@name='year' ]/context()} / % \xmlatt{#1}{tag}\par \stopxmlsetups
\xmlsetup{bibtex:somebibtex}{xml:bibtex:sorter}
\stoptext
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