Improve documentation regarding endnotes
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Thanks for this, I'm so happy to have easily extracted most of the xml data. However I noticed that some of the articles have endnotes rather than footnotes and I was wondering if you would consider adding a function to read those.
Could you point me to a specific file that contains endnotes? A link to the file on JSTOR would be enough, then I can take a look.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/43264001
Here's the summary from find_article():
basename_id journal_doi journal_jcode journal_pub_id article_doi article_pub_id article_jcode
1 43264001 NA abajafhocodela 43264001
article_type article_title
1 research-article How to Respond to a Subpoena for Records by a Grand Jury or the HUD Inspector General
volume issue language pub_day pub_month pub_year first_page last_page
1 3 4 eng 1 7 1994 7 15
For this particularly article, the endnotes are stored in the ref-list, which find_references extracts.
Therefore you can extract the endnotes via: jstor::find_references("path_to_file.xml").
From my experience, if there is information about citations contained in the xml-file, it can be retrieved either with find_footnotes or find_references. However, the documentation for this could probably be clearer.
Where would you expect hints on this behavior, so that you would find out about it on your own?
Oh I really thought I had checked and double checked but they were in my references file. I guess that makes sense in that endnotes are generally more like references than footnotes are and I think I was assuming they would be in footnotes since they are notes. Still, it would be good to document (I would probably put it in both places).
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