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[docbook-apps] Alternative to entities?
- From: "Gurra Green" <gurra_green at hotmail dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 13:35:00 +0000
- Subject: [docbook-apps] Alternative to entities?
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Hello all!
We are setting up a DocBook environment for user documentation here and need
a way of defining constant text strings, for example our product name and
other "official" names which 1) might be changed in the future and 2) we
want to be sure to have consistent caseing and other formatting as well.
I guess the obvious mechanism would be entities as described e.g. by
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularEntities.html
So far, so good. But our choice of editor is XMLMind which unfortunately
expands all %entity references when reading a document with the contents of
the entity, thus making the whole idea useless after writing the xml file
back to disk.
Does anybody have any suggestions on alternate methods for accomplishing the
same thing? It feels wrong to misuse DocBook because of an incomplete tool,
but the XMLMind editor has a number of verynice features why I am reluctant
to switching the whole company to another editor. I have googled for others
with the same problem, but not found anything. Grateful for any suggestions,
including makefile/perl hacks if no "native" DocBook mechanism could be
used.
/Gurra
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