Re: [docbook-apps] appropriate use of entities

[Ron Catterall <ron@catterall.net>]

Why not use xinclude to include parts, which xinclude chapters, which 
in turn can xinclude sections?  Works fine for me, all links and 
references work out OK.  That way you also validate each part, 
chapter or section independently, and re-organizing the order of 
things is easy.
Ron

>I am using a number of entities to split the chapters of a book.
>
>Basically the structure I use is as follows:
>
>a master file that contains:
>one entity for each chapter-file: chapter_name => file name
>one entity for each part: part_nb => references to contained chapter_names
>
>then I have a part file for each part_nb, that contains:
>one reference to the part_nb defined in the master file
>
>I choose that structure since I am not yet sure about the final 
>position (and number) of all the chapters, and that way I only have 
>to modify the master file to update the parts files.
>
>When I use docbook2html (latest Fink version) I get a proper html 
>set of files with no specific error message related to references or 
>entities, but when I use an app that parses the DocBook based on 
>SAX, I get an error when the app reaches the first part. The error 
>says that the entity is not defined.
>
>Do I really have to define all the references used in a file within 
>that file ? Or are there more flexible ways to do that ?
>
>Jean-Christophe Helary
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