On 1/19/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/01/07, Anthony wikitech@inbox.org wrote:
If it were implemented in PHP, could then a lookup be done so one would only need to give the ISBN and page number, and the rest would be added automagically?
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There's no reason we couldn't enhance the citation extension with an auto-formatter for book/journal/similar references, *but* consider that to do this, we'd be pulling the format from a message as it is; so there isn't much benefit over using a template as is done at present.
Current templates require you to specify all the information to be used in the templates. The question related to supplying only the ISBN and having it come up with the rest of the information from its database, as well as formatting it properly.