Hussein Shafie wrote:
> rechtsfrage at web.de wrote:
>> ...
>> I want to document some special XML syntax and want to give some
>> examples.
>>
>> Is it not possible to have XML-code within docbook?
> ...
> This is possible. We do that all the time. And yes, there is a trick.
> ...
> * TRICK: If you copy nearly all the text, from "?xml" to
> "/mediaobject>", (i.e. omit the leading "<"), XXE cannot parse it as XML
> and therefore will consider it as being plain text. This allows you (1)
> to paste the text in the programlisting (2) to type the leading "<" by
> hand.
That solves the pasting problem, but won't XMLmind still complain that
you have a malformed document? At least that was my experience when
embedding XML docs inside DocBook.
The way we used to get around that problem is to convert all the '<' in
the embedded XML to '<', and all the '>' to '>'. They of course
display as '<' and '>', so XMLmind is happy, and we're happy. It does
however require an extra step in the process, to convert these characters.
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