RE: [docbook-apps] profiling and entities

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:05 -0500, Webmaster wrote:
> Hi. Thank you for the quick response.
> 
> The image names are set as entities in the default.xml:
> 
> <!ENTITY imagedata1 SYSTEM "socket_mode.gif" NDATA gif>
> <!ENTITY imagedata2 SYSTEM "serial_tunneling_mode.gif" NDATA gif>
> <!ENTITY imagedata3 SYSTEM "udp_mode.gif" NDATA gif>
> <!ENTITY imagedata4 SYSTEM "connection_status.gif" NDATA gif>
> 
> 
> and the imagedata element calls them:
> 
> <imagedata entityref="imagedata1" align="center"/></imageobject>
> 
> (I don't know why the documentation person choose to do it this way, but
> that's how I got the xml file. Is there a better/typical way?)

DC had a perl solution.

'break' them as entities. 

Process them through the XSLT.
Then 'repair' them again, into entities.

Both pre and post processing via perl scripts.

HTH

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Regards, 

Dave Pawson
XSLT + Docbook FAQ
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