Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to internal entities?

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>]

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At 15:50 29/4/04, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>If you use a tag like <variablereference/>, don't you lose the ability
>to validate your documents? Am I missing or misunderstanding
>something?

Sort of, and yes.

DocBook is really not intended to be used as-is; it's intended to be 
customized for your specific purposes.  That's why (in the DTD version) 
there are all those parameter entities.  With the XSDL version, it's a 
little trickier; you basically have to comment out or modify the 
definitions in the original DocBook schemas, and replace them with your own 
definitions, but the principle is the same.

In this case, for my clients, I've substantially modified the DocBook 
schema, so the use of this element is valid just about anywhere character 
data is allowed.  The front matter (basically bookinfo) has a few 
additional elements to allow storing the values of some of those variables 
(product version, etc.).

~Chris
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