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

[Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org>]

Just came across this today:

  Entity Definition Markup Language

    http://www.talsever.org/xml/edml.html

"Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> 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?
> 
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