On Aug 12, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Jeni Tennison wrote:
I think you need to use Mike's suggestion of building an intermediate
version of the bibliography. Use the grouping method to create copies
of the <mods> elements, adding a "year" attribute (or something) that
holds the appropriate year + suffix. Then, when generating the
bibliography or list of citations, you only need to pull in the value
of this 'year' attribute.
OK. I understand this conceptually, but I never understood how to
create -- and to access -- this "intermediate version".
Mike's explanation was:
It may be simplest to start by generating a copy of the bibliography
in which the list of authors (Doe and Jones) and the year/serial
(1999b) appear as additional computed child elements or attributes,
and then working with this copy.
Again, I understand this in the abstract; I just don't get the
specifics behind the verbs "generating" and "working with" here.
How am I generating this "copy", in other words? Should I, for
example, be using the new temporary tree functionality? Within the
context of a variable? Something else?
I'm pulling my hair out trying to understand this :-)
Bruce
PS - My denseness is no doubt a function of the fact that my day job
has nothing at all to do with programming; thanks for the patience!