A newbie asks:
So far, my book looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN" [
<!ENTITY john "John Lennon">
<!ENTITY paul "Paul McCartney">
<!ENTITY george "George Harrison">
<!ENTITY ringo "Ringo Starr">
<!ENTITY chap1 SYSTEM "chap1.sgml">
<!ENTITY chap2 SYSTEM "chap2.sgml">
<!ENTITY chap3 SYSTEM "chap3.sgml">
]>
<book>
<bookinfo>
<!-- bookinfo entries go here... -->
</bookinfo>
<toc></toc>
&chap1;
&chap2;
&chap3;
</book>
1. The john, paul, george, and ringo entities are used throughout
the chap1, chap2, and chap3 files. I would like to keep the john,
paul, george, and ringo entities (plus many others) in a separate
file and include them. Can I do this? How?
2. I am writing a users manual that will be showing error messages
like "An error occurred in module ? - please contact the help desk."
I currently do something like this:
<!ENTITY part1 "An error occurred in module ">
<!ENTITY part2 "please contact the help desk.">
&part1; moduleX &part2;
&part1; moduleY &part2;
&part1; moduleZ &part2;
Is it possible to create an entity or macro where I can substitute
the % (or some other symbol) with a parameter? Maybe something
like
&errmsg(moduleX);
&errmsg(moduleY);
&errmsg(moduleZ);
to produce the same results? Is it possible to pass multiple arguments?
Thanks -
Jim Ide
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