Re: DOCBOOK: Building books with variables in them

[David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>]

Norm et al:

> Create your book like this:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE book ... [
> <!ENTITY version SYSTEM "version.sgm">
> ]>
> <book>
> ...
> <para>This is version &version;.</para>

I reckon that a perl script with this pseudo code:

subst_variables -f file.sgml entity1=value

#! /usr/bin/perl

[Use a REGEX operation to subst the value of ENTITY1 with value]

Would work a treat...

DL
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