On 3/23/07, Paul Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Mar 10, 2007, at 23:10, Paul Wilkins wrote: >> You are using the BibTex format, which is covered in the >> citation formats http://microformats.org/wiki/citation-formats > > Sure, but considering that I share my .bib, should I expect people to > want to scrape my (X)HTML-formatted bibliography?
--- YES! if you ONLY offer the reference as a .bib file then you are locking people into having to use BibTeX. You can certainly offer the .bib file, but by marking-up the XHTML, then people can extract the semantics and create CSV, Dublin Core RDF, TXT, or other formats for free. You do NOT have to have 400 small icons saying "download as: ..."
If the .bib is used as the lone source for the XHTML, I suspect it would be easier to scrape the .bib file.
--- What i tend to do for things like vCards and iCalendars is to create a "static" link to a .vcf file and then with Mod_rewrite or other tools make that a Link to a service that converts the HTML to a .vcf The same can be done with a .bib file. That way when you update the HTML page, you do NOT have to update several other files as well since they are dynamically created from the single SOURCE XHTML file. -brian -- brian suda http://suda.co.uk _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss