On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Jerome Caffaro wrote:
>   1. The content-type used to serve the output format.
>   2. The visibility bit switching on/off the output format on the user
>      search interface (hidden does not mean that the output format is
>      not available: it is just not in the list).
>   3. Names and description (mostly useful when format is visible).

Another thing stored in the DB is which output formats are activated for
which collections.  (E.g. portfolio format is enabled for Photos
collections only.)  This is part of the WebSearch Admin interface and
people would have to go there after having dropped a new output format
in `etc/bibformat/output_formats' anyway, in order to plug it where it
belongs.

> It is also not frequent that somebody wants to add new output formats,
> compared to the need to update them (which is in this case well
> covered with the current implementation).

Indeed.  Adding a new output format is a rare thing, while adding a new
format template or a new format element is relatively frequent and is of
drop-in nature already.

Best regards
-- 
Tibor Simko

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