Charles Palmer wrote: > I want to make use of ENTITIES, so substitute placeholders with my real > text at a later stage. > > I have a Forrest document that includes the following: > > <!DOCTYPE document PUBLIC "-//APACHE//DTD Documentation V1.2//EN" > "http://apache.org/forrest/dtd/document-v12.dtd"; [ > <!ENTITY GX2Board "PbX-104"> > ]> > > ...snip... > > <p>The &GX2Board; has four USB ports. > > > If I open it with XMLMind I get a warning message, and after I save it I > get this: > > <p>The PbX-104 has four USB ports. > > - in other words, XMLMind has done a permanent substitution. > > Similarly, if I try to insert an ENTITY, by changing "PbX-104" in the > XMLMind to " &GX2Board;" I end up with this: > > <p>The &GX2Board; has four USB ports. > > Your help menu talks about managed and non-manged entities, but I don't > understand. How can I get XMLMind to "manage" my entity, and not treat > it as "unmanged" and change it?
There is no way to do this. This is a limitation of XXE we do not plan to remove. (We thought this limitation was well documented! see http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/detailed_features.html#nonfeatures .) If you read this part of the tutorial: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/user/userguide3.html#id.s3 , you'll see how, IMHO, XIncludes offers a cleaner approach (i.e. more structured) to this text substitution problem.
