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

[Pascal Monasse]

On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 08:29:31 PM Miguel Colom wrote:
> 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.

Much easier would be to parse the .bbl file generated from LaTeX compilation. 
Only the citations used in the article would be there.

Pascal