This is a first attempt to write a bibliography tool for
KDE/KOffice. This software is not in a usable state yet, it is not
even alpha! No warranties what so ever are given.

My idea is to save the single bibliography entries in XML. The
transformations that have to be done to generate a citation in a
particular style will be coded in XSL/XSLT. In that way, it is
possible to create a bibliotraphy tool that works independently of the
particluar application it is used with. In addition to that, by using
XSLT it should be easily possible to create new bibliography styles
without having to touch the source code of the application that
manages the bibliography entries.

Currently, I have implemented load, save, find, and basic editing. If
you are brave, you can try the Save-To-Bibtex functions :-).
Autocompletion is there in an early stage, too (try CRTL-D/CRTL-S in Journal,
Publisher, Address or Month).

To compile kbiblio, type
   ./configure; make
Then you can go into the subdirectory kbiblio and start the binary
kbiblio from there. KBiblio should compile with the recently released Krash
release of KDE.

Any feedback is welcome.

Claus Wilke (claus.wilke@gmx.net)
1999-12-19



