DESCRIPTION

serves as a low-level parser of BibTeX database files. It parses and stores a for each entry into the current BibTeX macros are substituted into the field values, but no other processing of the data is done. See for how further processing is carried out, and can be customized.

Creating a BibTeX

"my $bib = LaTeXML::Pre::BibTeX->newFromFile($bibname);"

Creates a object representing a bibliography from a BibTeX database file.

"my $bib = LaTeXML::Pre::BibTeX->newFromString($string);"

Creates a object representing a bibliography from a string containing the BibTeX data.

Methods

"$string = $bib->toTeX;"

Returns a string containing the TeX code to be digested by a LaTeXML object to process the bibliography. The string contains all data and invocations of for each bibliographic entry. The can be used to lookup the data from as . See for how the processing is carried out.

BibEntry objects

The representation of a BibTeX entry.

"$type = $bibentry->getType;"

Returns a string naming the entry type of the entry (No aliasing is done here).

"$key = $bibentry->getKey;"

Returns the bibliographic key for the entry.

"@fields = $bibentry->getFields;"

Returns a list of pairs representing all fields, in the order defined, for the entry. Both the and are strings. Field names may be repeated, if they are in the bibliography.

"$value = $bibentry->getField($name);"

Returns the value (or ) associated with the the given field name. If the field was repeated in the bibliography, only the last one is returned.

AUTHOR

Bruce Miller <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT

Public domain software, produced as part of work done by the United States Government & not subject to copyright in the