Hi George, Perfect. Just what I need. Thanks very much.
cheers, Andrew On 9 Jun 2009, at 07:54, George Cristian Bina wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > You have two options: > 1. entities > 2. XInclude > Note that these are not linked to DocBook, you can use them for any > XML > vocabulary. > > 1. You can declare an entity in your DTD or in the DTD internal subset > like below > > <!ENTITY book "Gone With the Wind"> > > and then use it in your document > > I recently read &book;. > > 2. You can create a text file, let's say book.txt containing > > Gone With the Wind > > and then you use it in your document with > > I recently read <xi:include href="book.txt" parse="text" > xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>. > > If you declare the XInclude namespace on the document root > xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; > then you can write it like > > I recently read <xi:include href="book.txt" parse="text"/>. > > Best Regards, > George > -- > George Cristian Bina > <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger > http://www.oxygenxml.com > > Andrew Harrison wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Apologies if this is slightly off topic. I have a docbook question. >> Is >> there a way to define a variable in docbook and reference it in the >> text? >> >> In latex I would do: >> >> "\newcommand{\book}{Gone With the Wind}" >> >> then in the text: >> >> "I recently read \book." >> >> which would render as >> >> "I recently read Gone With the Wind." >> >> I can't seem to find out if this is possible. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Andrew >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> oXygen-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user > _______________________________________________ > oXygen-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, Queen's Buildings, 5 The Parade, Cardiff CF24 3AA, Wales, UK tel: +44(0)2920 879184 email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ oXygen-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailman/listinfo/oxygen-user
