Re: [docbook] external entities in docbook

[Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de>]

Hi,

On Mittwoch, 14. November 2007, Hinrich Aue wrote:
>
> at the moment we have a reference to a file containing our entitiy
> definitions like this:
>
> <!ENTITY % myents SYSTEM
> "Q:/docbook/Tourmalet_en/Variables/Variables.ent">
>
> This is of course ugly. Is there a different way of providing entities
> into any file without this?

Generally, I would recommend to use an URI instead of a path and resolve 
it through a XML catalog. See [1] for more information.
Of course your tools must support catalogs. :)


Hope that helps,
Tom

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[1] http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Catalogs.html

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Thomas Schraitle