[IPOL discuss] article references [Re: publishing the LaTeX source ..]

[Miguel Colom]

Quoting Nicolas Limare <nicolas.limare at cmla.ens-cachan.fr>:
>> If the bibtext file is available, it can be easy converted to XML
>> using bib2xml [1] from the bibutils package [2]. Then, parsing the
>> XML is quite easy.
>
> But the BibTeX file may contain references not appearing in the
> paper. So it has to be manually filtered.
>

Why manually? It should be easy to look for the \cite command by  
matching a regular expression in the LaTeX source and extracting the  
reference code, to check if a given reference is cited or not.