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

[Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Christopher R. Maden wrote:

> And we've also introduced variable references that are resolved by
> the stylesheet; e.g. <variablereference ref="productname"/> will
> pull the name of this product from the front matter of the manual.

Pardon me: I'm new to the list and probably haven't lurked long enough
to know what's what, but ...

If you use a tag like <variablereference/>, don't you lose the ability
to validate your documents? Am I missing or misunderstanding
something?

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein@madboa.com>