Re: [docbook] Suggestion needed...

[Oliver Fischer <plexus@snafu.de>]

Hello Giuseppe,

I think our way is ok. At least I would do the same.

What you have done was to create a customisation layer.

MfG

Oliver

Giuseppe Greco wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In our corporate documents, we need to automatically include
> our standard legal notice, company info, logo etc.
> 
> I accomplished that by creating a new DTD file to be used instead
> of the standard DocBook one. This new DTD file looks like this:
> 
> <!ENTITY % docbook PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
>   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
> <!ENTITY % l10n PUBLIC "-//AGAMURA//ENTITIES QuXo Localization
> V1.0//en-US"
>   "http://www.agamura.com/xml/quxo/1.0/ent/l10n.ent">
> <!ENTITY % copyright PUBLIC "-//AGAMURA//ENTITIES QuXo Copyright
> V1.0//en-US"
>   "http://www.agamura.com/xml/quxo/1.0/ent/copyright.ent">
> <!ENTITY % corpdata PUBLIC "-//AGAMURA//ENTITIES QuXo Corporation Data
> V1.0//en-US"
>   "http://www.agamura.com/xml/quxo/1.0/ent/corpdata.ent">
> 
> %docbook;
> %l10n;
> %copyright;
> %corpdata;
> 
> As you can see, it just includes the standard DocBook DTD and then
> adds some additional entities...
> 
> For example, %copyright; contains the legal notice and assert,
> %corpdata; contains long and short company name, web site, etc...
> 
> Well, I think this is the wrong place where to place entities like
> these. They should be placed somewhere else and then accessed by
> our customized DocBook stylesheets.
> 
> What do you think about that? What do you suggest instead?
> 
> Thanks,
> 


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