DOCBOOK: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobjecttoinsert external files

[Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de>]

Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> writes:

> Because they need fresh and actual copy of some external file (eg.
> program source) in a document.

Define your files as entities and use entity references.  Write a
Makefile to preprocess the files if it's necessary to escape special
SGML/XML characters.

The hacks you're offering to users makes their life difficult (but the
hacks save IT jobs, though).

> Look at TEI. Then DocBook will look as simple as 1+1=2. ;-))

TEI is a completely different story.  First and for all TEI is there to
allow "tagging" existing documents.

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