Thanks Hussein for the quick reply. I guess I'll have to live with it and give up using entities if the customer agrees with it.
I disagree with this sentence: 'Note that this limitation is not as severe as it seems'. Technical writers make use of entities to store a piece of information in a single place and reuse it later, like for the company name for instance. The current behavior of XXE prohibits this usage. In some technical writing projects, this may be a serious limitation. Having said that, I have to admit that XXE is the best tool I found so far for docbook editing. Fabrice --- Hussein Shafie <hussein at pixware.fr> a ?crit : > Fabrice TALBOT wrote: > > I started using XXE standard edition to maintain a > > docbook document. > > > > When I edit the docbook file, all entities are > > resolved. If I modify and save the file, then I > lose > > my entity declaration (the entity value is used > > instead). > > > > My questions are: > > - how to update a docbook document in XXE and > keep > > the entity declaration? > > - when I want to add an entity, is there an > option > > to open the list of entities declared? > > Excerpts of > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/detailed_features.html#nonfeatures > > --- > XXE cannot be used to edit the physical structure of > an XML document > (entities, CDATA sections, marked sections). > > A well-formed XML document making use of these > features can, of course, > be loaded into XXE but as soon as the document is > loaded, these > constructs are expanded and forgotten. > > Note that this limitation is not as severe as it > seems because > > * XXE supports the authoring of modular documents; > * when needed and when possible, XXE saves > characters as references to > character entities; > * XXE can be configured to save specific elements > (example: XHTML > script) as CDATA sections. > --- > > In a nutshell, please read > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/tutorial.html#id.s2 > to see if you can > live with the limitations of XXE. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ Appel audio GRATUIT partout dans le monde avec le nouveau Yahoo! Messenger T?l?chargez cette version sur http://fr.messenger.yahoo.com
