For DocBook 4, the answer is yes. You can use the method described here to include the entity declarations in a DTD customization:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularEntities.html#entities.in.dtd Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises DocBook Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Hinrich Aue To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:15 AM Subject: [docbook] external entities in docbook Hello list, at the moment we have a reference to a file containing our entitiy definitions like this: <!ENTITY % myents SYSTEM "Q:/docbook/Tourmalet_en/Variables/Variables.ent"> This is of course ugly. Is there a different way of providing entities into any file without this? Thanks, Hinrich
