{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/plk/biblatex/issues/410","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/plk/biblatex","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/plk/biblatex/issues/410/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/plk/biblatex/issues/410/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/plk/biblatex/issues/410/events","html_url":"https://github.com/plk/biblatex/issues/410","id":149167952,"number":410,"title":"crossref doesn't inherit when entry is referred to by an xref","user":{"login":"dcpurton","id":6268044,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6268044?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton","html_url":"https://github.com/dcpurton","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dcpurton/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-04-18T14:31:21Z","updated_at":"2016-04-18T14:31:21Z","closed_at":null,"body":"In the following example, `heraclitus:epistle1:worley:1977` doesn't inherit data from `malherbe:1977` even though it should. It still doesn't work even if I set `mincrossrefs=1`. It does work if  `heraclitus:epistle1:worley:1977` is cited explicitly.\r\n\r\nAs usual, a slightly silly example outside my own style.\r\n\r\n```TeX\r\n\\documentclass{article}\r\n\\usepackage{filecontents}\r\n\\begin{filecontents}{\\jobname.bib}\r\n@book{malherbe:1977,\r\n  editor = {Malherbe, Abraham J.},\r\n  title = {The Cynic Epistles: A Study Edition},\r\n  series = {Stuttgarter Bibelstudien},\r\n  shortseries = {SBS},\r\n  number = {12},\r\n  location = {Atlanta},\r\n  publisher = {Scholars Press},\r\n  date = {1977}\r\n}\r\n@bookinbook{heraclitus:epistle1:worley:1977,\r\n  author = {Heraclitus},\r\n  title = {Epistle 1},\r\n  translator = {Worley, David},\r\n  pages = {187},\r\n  crossref = {malherbe:1977}\r\n}\r\n@book{heraclitus:epistle1:worley,\r\n  author = {Heraclitus},\r\n  title = {Epistle 1},\r\n  translator = {Worley},\r\n  xref = {heraclitus:epistle1:worley:1977},\r\n  options = {skipbib}\r\n}\r\n\\end{filecontents}\r\n\\usepackage[style=verbose,minxrefs=1,mincrossrefs=3,backend=biber]{biblatex}\r\n\\addbibresource{\\jobname.bib}\r\n\\begin{document}\r\n\\strut\\vfill\r\n\\autocite[10]{heraclitus:epistle1:worley}\r\n\\printbibliography\r\n\\end{document}\r\n```"}}