Re: DOCBOOK: The best way to 'include' parts of a DocBook

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@fr.alcove.com>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:28:22AM -0400, Ljósálfr wrote:
> I want to create blocks of text, for example, <glossentery/>s and 
> 'include' them in my text at different places.  One strategy I have 
> come up with is to create a separate file for each entry and then add an 
> <!ENTITY term SYSTEM "term.xml"> for each term.  This starts to get 
> rather ugly if I put them all in the '['...']' of the DocType specifier.
> 
> First of all, does anybody understand what I'm attempting? If so, is 
> there a more elegant way of achieving this?

This is usually done by putting all your entity defns and references
in a single file (say "entities.ent"), and just referencing this one
from your master doc.

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