RE: [docbook-apps] Text Entites and Docbook 5

["Johnson, Eric" <Eric.Johnson@iona.com>]

I use xinclude for whole elements, such as a section, but I use entities
for snippets of text. For example, I put the name of the product in a
text entity called prodname and then in my docs when I want to put in
the product name I use &prodname;.
How would this work with xincludes? I thought xincludes could only be
used to import whole elements.
Cheers,
Eric
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kariem.hussein@gmail.com 
> [mailto:kariem.hussein@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Kariem Hussein
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 12:20 PM
> To: Johnson, Eric
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Text Entites and Docbook 5
> 
> Eric,
> 
> Have a look at this section in the definitive guide:
> 
> http://docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/ch02.html#ch02-physdiv
> 
> As far as I can see you can use XML entities. I always 
> preferred using xinclude, which is now 'officially' possible 
> without extending the docbook DTD.
> 
> Greetings,
> Kariem
> 
> On 2/16/07, Johnson, Eric <Eric.Johnson@iona.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm currently using Docbook 4.4 for my documents and I use 
> externally 
> > resolved text entities quite a lot in my documents to make them 
> > portable and share a lot of information like product name 
> and versions 
> > across all of the files for a particular library. In 
> reading over the 
> > transition guide it looks as though entities are not as 
> easily support 
> > using Docbook 5. Is this true and if so, what strategies 
> are good for replacing external entities?
> > Cheers,
> > Eric J.
>