Steve Sarette wrote: > Hello. > > I'm thinking about purchasing XML Mind profession edition, but before I > do I want to make sure about something. I have an absolute requirement > to be able to "variablize" product names. Normally I would just use > shared text entities for this (e.g. <!ENTITY myprod "My New Product > Name> but XmlMind replaces these on import. > > So I'm wondering if I can achieve the same effect using XInclude. What I > would want to do is have a file with all my variables in it, and > identify each with an id tag. For example: > > <para><phrase id="myprod">My New Product Name</phrase><phrase > id="otherprod">My Other Product Name</phrase> > > and then use XInclude to include the appropriate phrase where necessary > in the text body. By reading the product doc and by playing around with > the free version of XMLMind, it certainly seems like this should work. > However, I'm reluctant to gamble a few hundred dollars only to find out > that it doesn't. > > Also, I need to know if this sort of thing will work with the PDF and > RTF conversion plug-ins that are available for XmlMind.
I tested this with: --- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE para PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";> <para> <phrase id="myprod">My New Product Name</phrase> <phrase id="otherprod">My Other Product Name</phrase> </para> --- Note that you need to add a DTD to make XXE recognize id as being an ID attribute. Everything works fine with the Professional Edition, including conversion to RTF and PDF. I created this: --- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd";> <article> <title>Test</title> <sect1> <title>Test</title> <para>First product <xi:include href="phrases.xml#myprod" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; ></xi:include >.</para> <para>Second product <xi:include href="phrases.xml#otherprod" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; ></xi:include >.</para> </sect1> </article> --- I just have to warn you that the GUI is a bit tedious to use when you repeatedly insert references to different elements found inside the same external document. (For example, there is no keyboard shortcut to insert a reference to an external document or element.)
