About:
bib2xhtml is a program that converts BibTeX files into HTML (specifically, XHTML 1.0). The conversion is mostly done by specialized BibTeX style files, derived from a converted bibliography style template. This ensures that the original BibTeX styles are faithfully reproduced. Some post-processing is performed by Perl code. This is an update of the bib2html program written by David Hull in 1996 and maintained by him until 1998.

Author:
Diomidis Spinellis [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://www.spinellis.gr/sw/textproc/bib2xhtml/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.spinellis.gr/[..]textproc/bib2xhtml/bib2xhtml-2.26.tar.gz
Zip:
http://www.spinellis.gr/[..]sw/textproc/bib2xhtml/bib2xhtml-2.26.zip
Changelog:
http://www.spinellis.gr/sw/textproc/bib2xhtml/ChangeLog.txt
Mirror site:
http://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/textproc/bib2xhtml

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management, Software Development :: Documentation, Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.26	14-Jun-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] bug-report
by Ritesh Sood - Oct 3rd 2008 03:09:54

Hi all,
Here's how I'm invoking bib2xhtml.

bib2xhtml -s alpha -m IEEEabrv -u -c -r -i -d journal -e "${info_str}" ritesh_pubs.bib publications/pub_list.html
The file pub_list.html contains inline citations, and the option "-m IEEEabrv" is to include the BibTeX macro file IEEEabrv.bib.
Problem is that bib2xhtml doesn't seem to handle the macro file properly. I would get errors of the sort "ieee_j_mm not defined"; and the abbreviation is very much defined in IEEEabrv.bib. So I traced that to line 874 of bib2xhtml:
Instead of
push(@citations, "\\bibdata{$bibfile}");
It should be
push(@citations, "\\bibdata{$macrofile$bibfile}");

Also, note that while the .bib extension is explicit in the bibfile, if you give the macro file with a .bib extension, you will get an error. So we have some sort of an inconsistency here. Since the .bib extension in bibfile seems unavoidable (this is how we differentiate b/w a .bib and a .aux file) it would be better to insist that the macro file have the .bib extension also.
Thanks a lot to the author for the wonderful program :)
Ritesh.

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