John L. Clark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 06:01:17PM +0100, Paul Moloney wrote: >>As mentioned in this query to the docbook-apps >>list >>(http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200501/msg00090.html), >>XMLMind rewrites entities (on a tangent, I'm just curious as to why it >>does this?). This leaves me with the problem of how to have productnames, >>etc, being defined across custom documentation (each custom book >>has its own book file, but shares chapter files). >> >>The suggested workarounds seem to be to make the stylesheet >>select the required product name, etc, but I hate this, as it >>breaks the rule of seperating content from style - I really don't >>want people having to edit stylesheets to add new product names. >> >>Does anyone have an elegant solution to this problem? > > I like Norman Walsh's solution, called `ml-macro.xsl`[0], which uses > processing instructions to define macros. Unfortunately, it requires > that the macro definition PIs be located before the root element in the > document, and XXE does not allow direct manual editing of content > outside the root element. I believe that you can still write custom > commands to add processing instructions to a document being edited in > XMLmind, though. I've been meaning to experiment with this, but haven't > yet had a chance to do so. It might actually be beneficial to not be > able to edit these PIs directly, because they need to have a specific > format which you could control more easily with a specific UI. Another > alternative is to extend the ml-macro concept slightly to have it search > for macro definition PIs anywhere in the document. > > The other thing about Norm's solution is that his macro processor is > written in XSLT 2. I ported it to XSLT 1+EXSLT[1]; I don't know how > much support for EXSLT XXE's built-in XSLT processor has. I need to > experiment with this as well. I also posted some macro files > corresponding to the common character entities[2]. >
XXE includes Michael H. Kay's Saxon 6.5.4. See the "EXSLT" section in "SAXON Extensions" http://saxon.sourceforge.net/saxon6.5.4/extensions.html
