API:EPrints/Citation

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NAME

EPrints::Citation - Loading and rendering of citation styles.

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DESCRIPTION

Renders citations for data objects using a paticular style defined in it own configuration file.

This is an abstract class used by EPrints:Citation::EPC and EPrints::Citation::XSL whichb use XML EPC and XSL respecively to define citation style files.

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SYNOPSIS

 my $citation = $repo->dataset( "eprint" )->citation( "default" );
 
 $ok = $citation->freshen();
 
 $citation->render( $eprint, %opts );
 

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METHODS

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new

$citation = EPrints::Citation->new( $filename, %opts )

Returns a new EPrints::Citation object read from $filename.

Options:

   dataset - dataset this citation belongs to

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freshen

$ok = $citation->freshen()

Attempts to reload the citation source file.

Returns undef if the file could not be loaded.

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load_source

$ok = $citation->load_source()

Reads the source file.

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render

$frag = $citation->render( $dataobj, %opts )

Renders a EPrints::DataObj using this citation style.

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type

$type = $citation->type()

Returns the type of this citation. Only supported value is table_row.

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COPYRIGHT

© Copyright 2000-2024 University of Southampton.

EPrints 3.4 is supplied by EPrints Services.

http://www.eprints.org/eprints-3.4/

LICENSE

This file is part of EPrints 3.4 http://www.eprints.org/.

EPrints 3.4 and this file are released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation unless otherwise stated.

EPrints 3.4 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with EPrints 3.4. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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