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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to internal entities?
Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > Obviously this is not a DocBook-specific question, but are there any > alternatives to internal entities for macro-like text substitution? I > have pretty much completely moved from PSGML to nxml-mode for DocBook > editing, and I would like to try and eliminate use of DOCTYPEs. > However, I quite like declaring entities in the internal subset for > simple text substitution. Is there a lighter-weight alternative to > XInclude? For one application, I used an entity to refer to the > working name for a software package in case it changed. It seems a > bit excessive to XInclude a separate file to expand what would be, > say, a two character entity to the name of a software package. Is > there an alternative? Unfortunately there is no way to define entity without having !DOCTYPE if you want have your documents well-formed XML 1.0 or 1.1. This is a big problem as we can't throw away DTDs until it is resolved. Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://www.kosek.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Profesionální školení a poradenství v oblasti technologií XML. Úvod do XML 3.5. DocBook 18.-19.5. XSLT 24.-26.5. XML pro vývojáře 7.-8.6. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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