Docbook5 Export

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I have used easily the docbook export feature from the command line. The slang of docbook 5, however, has changed so that a lot of work is required to make the bibliography fit to docbook 5. I would propose to add docbook5 export to the already existing export features.

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Seems like they have an xml schema avaiable.

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Compared to the present state of xml export for docbook there are only some minor (as far I looked into it) issues and then it will be ok for docbook5 at the first glance:
1: id should become xml:id
2: the firstname and surname should be encapsulated by personname.
3: ulink should be a link and uri should be encapsulated with xlink:href like

<link xlink:href="http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/16252695/...">http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/16252695/...</link> (... to make it readable)

4: More troublesome is the fact that the default pattern for bibtexkey generation [authshort][shortyear] which produces ABC+95 e.g. will not work with docbook. The plus sign is not allowed. It would be nice therefore if the bibtex/biblatex --> xml transformation would transform any ABC+95 to ABC.95 which is allowed and gives the same information that there are more authors to be.

5: A nice to have would be when the transformation would make the xreflabel=“Abel et al.(1995)” for ABC+95. But is maybe a to great wish.

6: To include fields like DOI would be also nice to have, since they appear in citation list and are by themselves links to the document in the internet.

My five Cents

Best regards
Bernhard