Thank you for your quick response. I was already looking at an XSLT
workaround and have gotten it to work. However, it seems a shame that a
perfectly fine XML feature like entities cannot effectively be used with
what is otherwise a great XML editor. Now we'll have to tell our document
writers not just about DocBook but also about XSLT, if they want to use
entities and XXE. Perhaps you could mention your two solutions at
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/limitations.html.
Louis
Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek.cz>
2006-12-11 16:57
To
Louis.Strous at consul.com
cc
xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com
Subject
Re: [XXE] Request: make XMLmind XML editor support entities that stand for
fixed text
Louis.Strous at consul.com wrote:
> That text implies that one can always reasonably work around this
> limitation, but I disagree. This limitation does seem severe for
entities
> that stand for short fixed text that gets used a lot and that must be
> changed after some period of time, such as "&productversion;" to refer
to
> the version of the product described in the document. As far as I can
> tell, none of the mitigating factors mentioned above can be used in this
> case.
You can use XInclude for this purpose. Using XInclude + XPointer you can
include just small fragments of XML not the whole referenced file. It is
also possible to solve this problem on XSLT level. For example, in your
document you can write <replace>productversion</replace> and then write
simple XSLT which will replace such element with a proper value for
productversion.
Jirka
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