Perfect. It took me a while to figure out to switch the view in XXE to 'no style', but with the xml phrases exposed, I can do everything in XXE. Hurray.
I played with this a little and found I can have multiple XMLVariable files. This helps me since I want team leads to manage their string substitutions independently. Thanks very much. clark -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 6:23 AM To: Clark Karr Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com Subject: Re: [XXE] String substitution in XXE docbooks producing pdf Clark Karr wrote: > Your xml file certainly works; my docbook file does not. > > Your file has: > "<para>I want to print "Hi" right here: &howdy; ..." > While the docbook file I create with XXE has: > "<para>I want to print "Hi" right here: &howdy; ..." > > The difference is '&howdy' versus '&:howdy'. > > How do I enter '&howdy' using XXE? If you type "&howdy;" in XXE, you get "&howdy;" in the XML file created by XXE, which corresponds exactly what you typed. XXE does not work at the XML physical level. You cannot directly create a reference to an internal entity with it. > I cannot get the include tool to insert > a reference (apparently I need to nominate another file as the source of > 'XML variables'). > > I'd like an XXE solution; preferably using only docbook files. If I need to > create an 'XML variables' file, how do I do so from within XXE. Please follow these steps: [1] Enable the Include tool by turning on "Enable the Include Tool" (Options|Preferences, General|Features section). Tell all your users to do the same. [2] Create a DocBook article and call it something like MyXMLVariables.xml. This file should be created on a file share that can be accessed by all your users. This file should be maintained by you. Your users are not supposed to edit it. [3] In the first blank paragraph, insert one or more phrase elements (http://www.docbook.org/tdg/en/html/phrase.html), one phrase by ``XML variable''. A phrase element contains the string to be substituted. *IMPORTANT* A phrase element must have a short but stable and meaningful id attribute. Example: <phrase id="product">Foo bar</phrase> [4] Close MyXMLVariables.xml. [5] Click on button [+] of the include tool and specify the path of MyXMLVariables.xml. Tell all your users to do the same. http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/includePane.html [6] Now open another DocBook document where you want to insert a variable. For example, click inside a para element where you want to insert a reference to your product. [7] Press Ctrl+Shift-R (Edit|Reference|Insert Reference) then type the first few letters of "product" (e.g. "pr") in the include tool (which supports autocompletion). Then press Enter to confirm your choice. A reference to <phrase id="product">Foo bar</phrase> is inserted in your document. The inserted phrase element is displayed in blue/gray which means that it is read-only. > > I thought the Copy by Ref mechanism might work for us. I created a docbook > with a table of strings to use, but I cannot pick up a text string with a > Copy by Reference from within XXE. > Copy by Reference works fine too, but is more tedious to use in the case of XML variables.
