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Subject: DOCBOOK: entitiy sharing
We are using Adept 8.2 on Windows NT with a customized version of the DocBook DTD. We are writing documentation for a group of small software applications that all work together, and thus they share quite a few menu items, fields and functions. Occasionally, some of these items appear on more than one screen in an application, and must be documented or described more than once in a particular document. Here's the problem: If we use file entities, we can share them easily among documents, but we can only use a file entity once in a document, or we get errors due to multiple use of the ID/IDREF attributes. If we use text entities (which provide for multiple use within a document), the only way we know of to share them among documents is to manually copy the entity declarations to the prologues of the other files (thus defeating our goal of single-sourcing everything). Are we missing something? Is there a process that will allow us to share this data among documents, as well as use it more than once in a document if needed?
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