OK, now here's a big one: XHTML output for InsetBibtex. It's not perfect---

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@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ These insets do nothing for XHTML:
        ERT, OptArg, Phantom
 
 These insets work but still need work:
+       InsetBibtex: There are a few issues here. One is that the output is not very
+               nice. This will be solved, though, by a patch of mine I seem to have forgotten
+               to finish. To get output that accorded with the BibTeX style, of course, we'd 
+               have to parse the bbl file. I don't know if that's worth it.
+               Another issue concerns cross-references. At the moment, we simply use the
+               xref information for every entry, rather than listing the xref separately and
+               then referencing it. That should not be terribly hard, but it would take a bit
+               of work.
        InsetBox: We need a Length::asHTML() method and the like, but it basically works.
                though the CSS isn't there yet.
        InsetCitation: This has two limitations as of 11 VI 2009. The first is that we
@@ -37,10 +45,6 @@ May need to make use here of TocWidget::itemInset, which should then be moved
 to TocBackend.
 
 These do not yet work and need some attention:
-       InsetBibtex: We should be able to collect the keys of references in
-               validate() and then use our parsed information to output some sort of
-               bibliography. Formatting is another question, but here again we could
-               try parsing the bbl file.
        InsetCommand: By default does nothing. That may be right?
        InsetExternal: I don't understand these so am not sure what to do.
        InsetFloat: This will need some work, again because I do not really understand