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<div class="refnamediv"><h2><span class="refentrytitle">bibliography.collection</span></h2><p>
bibliography.collection
— Name of the bibliography collection file
</p></div>
<div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<a name="bibliography.collection.frag"></a><pre class="programlisting">
<xsl:param name="bibliography.collection">http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/bibliography/bibliography.xml</xsl:param>
</pre>
</div>
<div class="refsection"><a name="idp4790672"></a><h2>Description</h2>
<p>Maintaining bibliography entries across a set of documents is tedious, time
consuming, and error prone. It makes much more sense, usually, to store all of
the bibliography entries in a single place and simply <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">extract</span>”</span>
the ones you need in each document.</p>
<p>That's the purpose of the
<a href="../html/bibliography.collection.html"><em class="parameter"><code>bibliography.collection</code></em></a> parameter. To setup a global
bibliography <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">database</span>”</span>, follow these steps:</p>
<p>First, create a stand-alone bibliography document that contains all of
the documents that you wish to reference. Make sure that each bibliography
entry (whether you use <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/biblioentry.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">biblioentry</code></a> or <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/bibliomixed.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">bibliomixed</code></a>)
has an ID.</p>
<p>My global bibliography, <code class="filename">~/bibliography.xml</code> begins
like this:</p>
<div class="informalexample">
<pre class="programlisting"><!DOCTYPE bibliography
PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<bibliography><title>References</title>
<bibliomixed id="xml-rec"><abbrev>XML 1.0</abbrev>Tim Bray,
Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, and Eve Maler, editors.
<citetitle><ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">Extensible Markup
Language (XML) 1.0 Second Edition</ulink></citetitle>.
World Wide Web Consortium, 2000.
</bibliomixed>
<bibliomixed id="xml-names"><abbrev>Namespaces</abbrev>Tim Bray,
Dave Hollander,
and Andrew Layman, editors.
<citetitle><ulink url="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">Namespaces in
XML</ulink></citetitle>.
World Wide Web Consortium, 1999.
</bibliomixed>
<!-- ... -->
</bibliography>
</pre>
</div>
<p>When you create a bibliography in your document, simply
provide <span class="emphasis"><em>empty</em></span> <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/bibliomixed.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">bibliomixed</code></a>
entries for each document that you wish to cite. Make sure that these
elements have the same ID as the corresponding <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">real</span>”</span>
entry in your global bibliography.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<div class="informalexample">
<pre class="programlisting"><bibliography><title>Bibliography</title>
<bibliomixed id="xml-rec"/>
<bibliomixed id="xml-names"/>
<bibliomixed id="DKnuth86">Donald E. Knuth. <citetitle>Computers and
Typesetting: Volume B, TeX: The Program</citetitle>. Addison-Wesley,
1986. ISBN 0-201-13437-3.
</bibliomixed>
<bibliomixed id="relaxng"/>
</bibliography></pre>
</div>
<p>Note that it's perfectly acceptable to mix entries from your
global bibliography with <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">normal</span>”</span> entries. You can use
<a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/xref.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">xref</code></a> or other elements to cross-reference your
bibliography entries in exactly the same way you do now.</p>
<p>Finally, when you are ready to format your document, simply set the
<a href="../html/bibliography.collection.html"><em class="parameter"><code>bibliography.collection</code></em></a> parameter (in either a
customization layer or directly through your processor's interface) to
point to your global bibliography.</p>
<p>A relative path in the parameter is interpreted in one
of two ways:</p>
<div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="a"><li class="listitem">
<p>If your document contains no links to empty bibliographic elements,
then the path is relative to the file containing
the first <a href="http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/bibliomixed.html"><code class="sgmltag-element">bibliomixed</code></a> element in the document.</p>
</li><li class="listitem">
<p>If your document does contain links to empty bibliographic elements,
then the path is relative to the file containing
the first such link element in the document.</p>
</li></ol></div>
<p>Once the collection file is opened by the first instance described
above, it stays open for the current document
and the relative path is not reinterpreted again.</p>
<p>The stylesheets will format the bibliography in your document as if
all of the entries referenced appeared there literally.</p>
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