Johnson, Eric wrote: > I work as part of a documentation group that is looking to move our > documentation set into XML and found that XML Mind is a great editor. > However, we planning to use text entities for a number of pieces of > information that are shared across many books, such as product name and > version number. Since much of this content is also shared across > multiple products this also makes the content more portable. Is there > any way to make XML Mind support the use of text entities or a similar > mechanism?
We don't support text entities and we probably never will. We have a similar mechanism: * more adapted to the use of XML W3C Schemas and RELAX NG schemas, * more structured, * easier to document and to maintain, * which makes commonly used snippets easier to share between documents than when using entities. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/user/tutorial_modular_document.html#extensive_copy_as_reference The only drawback is that the mechanism used here is based on XInclude, which unfortunately means possible interchange problems. Note that XXE v3.5.2 (Professional Edition), to be released next week, has a new Include pane, which makes working with ``XML variables'' a snap. This new Include pane is an alternative, highly specialized for `XML variables'', to using the "Copy As Reference/Paste" approach described in the above tutorial.
