[Web4lib] Style Sheet for RefWorks Display

[Hutchinson, Alvin]

Please excuse the cross posting . . . .

I am creating a bibliography of staff publications using the web-based
bibliographic management software, RefWorks which can export to
tab-delimited or XML formats (among other things).

Of course I can import a delimited file into a SQL database and serve
the content up via scripting language, but I am wondering whether the
XML format might offer some more flexibility or other advantages. Any
ideas?

My questions:

The master_bibliography.xml file will probably grow to 30-50mb or more.
Is this too large to adequately filter and display data on several dozen
different pages using XSLT or some other method?

Has anyone worked with RefWorks-exported XML? Sample data is shown here:

<a1>Author, First</a1>
<a1>Author, Second</a1>
<a1>Author, Third</a> 
Etc.
<t1>Title of article or book chapter</t1>
<yr>Pub Year</yr>
Etc.

I have written simple style sheets but I'm afraid I don't know how to
display repeated elements like <a1>. Any hints?

Thanks in advance for any advice and please pardon me if this is a dumb
question.

Alvin Hutchinson
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
(202) 633-1031