On Monday, May 05, 2008, at 09:56AM, "Alex Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2008-05-04, at 6:40 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> Indeed. It might be feasible to extend the current special-case >> handling of DOI, but special cases suck. You could look into adding a >> script hook that fires when the DOI field is set, and then the onus is >> on you to keep it working :). I think that's actually the way DOI is >> designed to work, but it would have been easier if they'd made it a >> URL instead of a URI that requires additional context (e.g. as an >> attribute in XML) to be useful. > >That's exactly what I've done. The following not only sets a URL, but >also checks your URLs to see if a previous value of the DOI is entered >as a URL, and replaces it if needed. If you delete the DOI, it deletes >the URL as well.
Thanks! This works really well. How hard would it be to strip any leading non-numeric characters, so it would work with stuff like doi:10.xxx? BibDesk uses the fact that DOI names always starts with "10" to normalize strings before converting them to DOI: http://www.doi.org/handbook_2000/enumeration.html#2.2 (see 2.2.1) Sometimes I wish I could write AppleScript as well as read it... -- adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
