Fabrice TALBOT wrote: > 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.
Our tutorial explains how to do this in a more structured way (see the VAT example). The technology used to implement this is XInclude. But this is transparent to the user who just needs to copy a reference (to <phrase id="company_name">ACME Ltd</phrase> for example) from a document just containing ``business objects'' and paste it in the document he is authoring.
