Ms Office 2007 xml Import/Export

[Siedlerchr]

Follow up from #1750 and #1765

TODO:

• Export Company/Author as Corpoate Export to MS Office 2007 (.xml) - Author is Company #1497
• Language to LCID mapping
• Support for Custom Entry types (http://discourse.jabref.org/t/customize-word-2007-xml-export-filter/149/4)

[Mattri]

Hello Christoph,

in the meantime, I've been testing MS Office 2007 XML export of version 3.6. Integration of custom entry types as <b:BIBTEX_entry> seems to be a good idea and can be used for generating appropriate citations in Word. I noticed one more problem, though: the "Location"-field of BibTex is not exported correctly. Say, you have set "Location" to "Berlin". Then, in the MS-Bib XML this is converted to

<b:City>Berl</b:City>
<b:StateProvince>i</b:StateProvince>
<b:CountryRegion>n</b:CountryRegion>

[Siedlerchr]

Hello Mattri,
thanks for your report! I will check it.
Integration of custom entry types as <b:BIBTEX_entry> seems to be a good idea
Yeah, I thought the same and theoretically it should already be there, because the field is just calling entry.getType() But I will check for custom entry types,too.

In the meantime I created a help page with all entry and field mappings between JabRef and MsOffice.
It is not yet public, but I will try to get it done this afternoon/evening.

[Siedlerchr]

@Mattri I fixed the location bug. When only one "word" is present (e.g. Berlin) it is treated as city.
And also the location Stroudsburg, PA, USA is splitted correctly in City, StateProvince, CountryRegion

Theoretically the build from #1909 should have been on http://builds.jabref.org/ but there seems to be an issue with the builds...

[Siedlerchr]

@Mattri I just merged the fix for the location export bug. You soon could try the latest master from here:
http://builds.jabref.org/master/

[Siedlerchr]

@Mattri I just tested to export a custom entry type. The entrytype is corectly set in the
<b:BIBTEX_entry> field
And in the xml file:

<b:Source>
<b:Year>2016</b:Year>
<b:BIBTEX_Entry>mycustomentrytype</b:BIBTEX_Entry>
<b:SourceType>Misc</b:SourceType>
<b:Tag>CustomAuthor2016</b:Tag>

Sample Bib file:
CustomEntryType.bib.txt

[Mattri]

@Siedlerchr I tried the dev snapshot. However, the .exe throws a Java-Error during initialization. I ran the .jar and did the MS-Bib Export. The issue with broken exports of "Location" is still there, works only randomly, e.g. "Södertälje" is exported correctly, while "Tokyo" isn't.

[Siedlerchr]

@Mattri I just see that the master build did not get updated correctly (still from 02.09). I will build an upload it manualy

[Siedlerchr]

@Mattri I just uploaded the most recent version to my personal cloud
https://siedlerchr.owncube.com/index.php/s/NaXpmdT0ZatFD5H

Edit// Help page is now accesible:
http://help.jabref.org/en/MsOfficeBibFieldMapping

[Mattri]

@Siedlerchr thanks for the fixed version. There are a few more issues from my side: since I organize my references with custom entry types (necessary corporate rules) source type is set to "Misc" for all of my entries with "BIBTEX_Entry" added for the custom entry type. This is OK. However, some fields are ignored and do not show up in the MS-Bib-XML. For example, I use a custom type for reports which includes a field "key". This tag is not exported. Same thing with a custom patent-like type containing the field "number".
Would it be possible for the source type "Misc" to treat every field encountered in the *.bib-file, export it to an appropriate MSBib-XML-tag OR apply <b:BIBTEX_myfield>. In any case, fields should not be omitted

[Siedlerchr]

Yeah, that should be possible. If you could provide me some sample bib file (if you do not want it public here, send it to developers@jabref.org), I wil test it and check the possibilites.

[Mattri]

I generated a sample file containing a set of custom entry types. All fields should be exported

sample_file_Mattri.zip