Issue 22991 - Building and Testing a Bibtex to Bibliographic Database import filter
Summary: Building and Testing a Bibtex to Bibliographic Database import filter
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: bibliographic
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact: issues@bibliographic
URL: http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ope...
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Reported: 2003-11-28 20:49 UTC by dnwilson
Modified: 2013-07-30 02:14 UTC (History)
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Description dnwilson 2003-11-28 20:49:41 UTC 
Build and test an import filter for bibtex data files that will insert the data from those 
files into the bibliographic database.
Comment 1 dnwilson 2003-11-28 20:53:01 UTC 
The bibtext import filter is available for testing. Comments and suggestions 
for improvement are requested. Note that is is not yet reliable and should 
not be trusted with important data. 
 
It is available from the above URL.
Comment 2 dnwilson 2003-11-28 21:36:05 UTC 
Current status is - 
Changes: 
* Allow the : character in ids and field names. 
* 'Abstract' is inserted in the user-defined field 1. 
* All unknown fields are stacked into user-defined-2.  However, this 
  is a poor solution because the fields in the OOo database have a 
  maximum size.  If an entry has too many unknown fields the user will 
  still experience data-loss. 
 
  I can't think of a better way of dealing with this problem though. 
 
*  The filter deals nicely with repeated IDs: 
 
Suppose that the ID 'Dan03' is already in the database.  Then the filter  
will use Dan03-2.  If that's taken, then Dan03-3 and so on.  If you later 
delete 'Dan03-2' it becomes available.  So you won't get an 
ever-growing  
stack of ID names.  The filter will use the smallest number that is 
available. 
 
Repeated IDs within the .bib file are also dealt with correctly. 
 
I still consider the filter alpha quality.  I am sure that some unusual  
BibTeX files will confuse this filter.
Comment 3 dnwilson 2003-11-29 09:47:28 UTC 
As requested reassigned to D. Carrera
Comment 4 Rob Weir 2013-07-30 02:14:59 UTC 
Reset assignee on issues not touched by assignee in more than 2000 days.