Export to TEI: order of entries

james.a.freeman.1

Hello all,

I've encountered a problem when exporting references from Zotero into TEI.

I order my references in Zotero by date of publication. I want to maintain that order when I export the references into TEI. However, during export, the order is scrambled; I've looked closely at the sequence and cannot understand in what order (if any) Zotero is sorting the references (not author surname, not xml:id, not title...). Of course, I can cut and paste and put the bibliography back into chronological order, but with a long bibliography that can be a very time-consuming process.

Has anyone else encountered this problem - and if so, is there a solution? I'd be very grateful to hear!

Many thanks, and best wishes,

James

adamsmith

Is TEI sensitive to the order of entries? That seems odd for an XML format.
I'm not sure if it's possible at all, but it's certainly not easy to impose a sort order on export formats in Zotero.

emilianoeheyns

It seems a little odd for a bibliography format, but XML nodes are ordered -- entities who read the XML are of course free to ignore the order, but it's there. I'm not sure whether attributes are ordered, but nodes are for sure.