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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: external entities cannot be valid?
/ Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com> was heard to say: | It appears that external parsed entities cannot be | valid XML. Someone please prove me wrong. Uh, I'm not sure what you mean. A document that uses external parsed entities can certainly be valid. | Option A: Leave out the doctype declaration from the [...] | | Option B: Include the doctype declaration in each chapter [...] You couldn't do this with SGML, either, so I'm a little confused. | Option C: Leave out the doctype declaration in each chapter [...] Well, even worse than that is the fact that you can't do this: <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "..." "..." [ <!ENTITY chapter SYSTEM "..."> ]> &chapter; Option C is very troublesome to implement. | I very much want my writers keeping their chapter documents | valid at all times, by using a validating XML editor. | I want each file validated when it is checked into | revision control to prevent problems with our documentation | builds. | | There must be some way to accomplish this, isn't there? Personally, I use option A and do validity checking against the whole book (er, except when I'm using Adept/Epic which allows you to have your cake and eat it too in this regard :-), but in your environment, it sounds like B is probably slightly easier for your authors, you just need to automate the book-building process with Makefiles or a script or something. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | The First Amendment is often http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | inconvenient. But that is besides Member, DocBook Editorial Board | the point. Inconvenience does not | absolve the government of its | obligation to tolerate | speech.--Justice Anthony Kennedy, | in 91-155
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