DOCBOOK: Re: external programlistings

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

Dave Makower <davemak@iclick.com> writes:

|   However, I'd like to have the program reside in an external file,
|   say, "Tutorial1.java".  Is there a way for me to include the
|   external file and have it treated as if it were a CDATA section?
|   This would save me from having to maintain two copies of the program
|   content.

Please, try:

<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" [
<!ENTITY tips SYSTEM "tips.sgml">
]>

...
<programlisting><![ RCDATA [&tips;
]]>
</programlisting>

You're looking for RCDATA (Replacable Character Data).  I hope, XML
didn't drop this feature.

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