Paul Moloney wrote: > >> If you come up with a great idea, we'll >> implement it (but remember that XXE can only include elements, not text). > > That was my next question. :) In the absense of being able to > copy-and-paste > simple text, I realised I needed to wrap my list of variables using a > "lowest- > common-denominator" element. > > (This was after I used <wordasword> as the wrapper, and then found I > couldn't use that element as a reference within a <command>element.) > > Do you have any suggestions? I've looked through the DocBook reference, > but nothing springs out as the obvious choice.
For DocBook, I would recommend <phrase>. Yes, I know, a <command> cannot contain a <phrase>, but to my knowlegde, <phrase> is the only DocBook element without special semantics. >> You don't like what we did and you don't like what did >> Claus, so I'm really curious > > Oh, I'm not adverse to the copy and paste method myself here.... the > problem is that our docs here have a lot of conditional text of fine > granularity (single words as opposed to sections, for example) as > our documents are hugely customised (for example, particular customers > wanting us to use the name "foo" for a widget rather "bar"). > > Perhaps this is something people writing in DocBook avoid (we're new to > all this). >
