BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ Convert BibTeX to XML ?

[samax]

Hello,
I need to convert BibTeX format to XML format, in order to parse it in PHP and insert it in a MySQL database.

I found this project, with which I've found a BibTeX-to-BibTeXML converter (written in python), but it breaks BibTeX special caracters (see here, column "in text") by removing curly brackets...

Does someone has another solution to do this ?

[frabjous]

I've never needed to do this, but there are several tools out there to try.

bib2ml "BibTeX to HTML/SQL/XML translator."

Bibutils has a bib2xml component

bib2xhtml (XHTML of course is a kind of XML -- I assume you don't need any specific kind?)

Some BibTeX bibliography managers like JabRef have various export options, including XML-based ones.

I'd guess there are others out there too. Searching at sourceforge makes it look like there also some things in development for using .bib files directly with MySQL. Here's one example.

There are also many bib2html converters out there, but I don't know whether or not their HTML output is close enough to XML to count (or is more SGML-esque, etc.) I'll list 'em if you need them.

Again, I have no first hand experience with any of these, so I cannot recommend one. Maybe someone else can.

[samax]

Thank you for your answer, I think it will really help.

[frabjous]

If you don't mind, if you find a converter that works well, come back and let us know which one it was, so we know for future reference.