This sounds tempting. I'm using docbook 4. I guess I have to adapt the DTD then, so the editor (Serna) doesn't complain.
What does a stylesheet rule look like? Hinrich -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Geraint North [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Monday, November 19, 2007 11:58 AM An: Hinrich Aue Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [docbook] external entities in docbook Are you using the entities to substitute phrases at document generation time (i.e. using the XSLT stylesheets)? I've had success by adding elements to Docbook for the phrases that I need ( <TargetOS/ >, <ProductName/>, etc.) and writing simple XSLT rules that replace them with a string provided to the xsltproc or saxon command-line. Using this mechanism, the document authors just insert an empty <ProductName/> element wherever it is required, and the publisher can generate the documentation for the required product by specifying the appropriate command-line arguments. I initially went down the road of using entities, but abandoned that route because a) my preferred XML Editor (XMLMind) doesn't support them in the way that I'd like, and b) difficulty in specifying the required values cleanly, as you describe. I can go into more detail if this approach sounds useful to you. My experience is with DocBook 5, but I'm sure that the theory is equally applicable to previous versions. Geraint North Principal Engineer Transitive On 14 Nov 2007, at 9:15, Hinrich Aue wrote: > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
