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I cannot understand how to import SGML data.

What should be the right filter?

Hi,

If you mean Standard Generalized Markup Language (or HTML, perhaps), then there is no way (with the exception of EndNote XML).

Jon
Sonny Software

Yes, I mean exactly that: Standard Generalized Markup Language.

However, I am a bit confused. I was persuaded that this was a bibliographic standard.
And in fact I know a site where it is described as a specific protocol for bibliographic databases:
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/amphoras/tocs.html

But, after downloading the intended files, I was not able to import the data into Bookends.

What is the explanation?

There are hundreds of 'standards', some of which Bookends deals with and some it doesn't (and as far as I can see this isn't a standard, but a convention adopted by this particular reference collator). I took a look at an example from that site, and it looks something like this (correct me if I'm wrong):

<au>Brachet, Jean-Paul</au>
<ti>Lat. tutanus: sens et formation</ti>
<jl>Latomus 65.4</jl>
<yr>2006</yr>
<pg>869-878</pg>

The generic Bookends import filters expect tags to be at the beginning of a field, with nothing at the end. So you could easily import each field, but they'd be terminated with the close tags in Bookends (e.g. </au>). You could get rid of them pre- or post-import with search/replace if that mattered.

I think it would be possible to use the Bookends "Source" import option in these cases. Something like:

to letter -> Ignore
to < -> authors
to letter -> ignore
to < -> journal
etc.

The User Guide has the details on how to use the Source parser to import arbitrary data into Bookends.

Jon
Sonny Software