> -----Original Message----- > From: Matt G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 7:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Modular Documentation > > > So, if I have a set of terms relating to a standard, perhaps > an ITU spec or > an RFC, I create entities for all of these, and place them in > their own > file. Every document that uses these terms includes this > file (in the > document's internal subset, it declares an external parameter > entity that > maps to the file with the definitions, and then it expands > that entity, so > the definitions are instantiated in the document).
Two short notices: 1) You can import the entity files for global entities in your customization layer; this prevents the import into every single file. 2) It's *very* useful to build a hierarchy of entity files for this, like customization layer imports globals.ent globals.ent imports abbreviations.ent; textmodules.ent etc. textmodules.ent e.g. imports all entity files from a directory named textmodules (so it can be generated automatically) and so on. Another approach would be to build such files (like textmodules.ent) out of a database, e.g. for product names, perhaps using an existing database ... Gisbert Amm http://web.de/
