ISO STS: Numbering restarted in multiple lists inside bibliography

[Intelligent2013]

Source tickets: metanorma/mnconvert#190, metanorma/mnconvert#207

Guidelines for coding IEC and ISO standards in NISOSTS provides multiple lists inside bibliography with restarted numbering (see page 30):

NISO STS XML fragment:

<ref-list content-type="bibl" id="sec_bibl">
	<title>Bibliography</title>
	<ref-list>
		<title>ISO standards</title>
		<ref id="biblref_1_1">
			<label>[1]</label>....</ref>
		<ref id="biblref_1_2">
			<label>[2]</label>....</ref>
	</ref-list>
	<ref-list>
		<title>Other Publications</title>
		<ref id="biblref_1_3">
			<label>[1]</label>....</ref>
		<ref id="biblref_1_4">
			<label>[2]</label>....</ref>
	</ref-list>

Currently, Metanorma supports multiple Bibliography sub-sections (https://www.metanorma.org/author/topics/document-format/bibliography/#general, See EXAMPLE 2. EXAMPLE OF HAVING MULTIPLE BIBLIOGRAPHY SUB-SECTIONS), but sub-sections have continuous numbering.

Can we achieve restarted numbering?

[opoudjis]

I am really surprised here, and I am VERY reluctant to implement this: if [1] is how you reference a bibliographic citation, having [1] be ambiguous is a catastrophe. That usage is only acceptable if [1] is never used to reference the bibliographic citation (because the standard identifier is used instead)—which means that only standards are being referenced. If it was a book, you would still use [1].

I can do this. Do not assume that I will. I will need to investigate what this means for referencing. I will never implement something that makes citations ambiguous.

[ronaldtse]

@opoudjis @Intelligent2013 This is definitely not a high priority task. Let's consider this a "noted issue" and we will deal with this when we encounter such an example.