thanks Hussein for your quick response and help. I am relatively new to XML and DocBook so was trying out text entities as this is what most of the XML/DocBook tutorials on the web use to illustrate macros. great product, it's a real pleasure to use. Chris
Hussein Shafie wrote: >Chris Clark wrote: > > >>I have been evaluating XXE v3.0 for use as the editor for a set of >>product documentation (currently in Latex, being converted to DocBook). >>I am very impressed with the quality, features and flexibility. However, >>one small point poses a large obstacle - support of entities (used as >>text macros): >><! ENTITY product "<productname>The Product</productname>"> >> >>XXE substitutes the entity reference &product; with the replacement >>text, thus losing the whole point of using macros. Use of macros is >>such a fundamental feature, I am wondering whether I haven't missed >>something. I can't imagine that a professional editor does not support >>this. Please tell me there is a way to do this, I would really like to >>recommend XXE to my customer. >> >> > >We agree with you with the fact that the use of ``macros'' is an >indispensable feature. > >We don't agree with you with the fact that this implies using text >entities. > >Support of text entities will probably never be implemented in XXE. > >Please read the "Extensive use of the 'Copy as Reference' command" >section of our tutorial >(http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/tutorial.html#id.s2.3) to learn about >an alternative mechanism. > > > > >
