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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to internal entities?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 01:21 27/4/04, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: >Obviously this is not a DocBook-specific question, but are there any >alternatives to internal entities for macro-like text substitution? [...] >For one application, I used an entity to refer to the >working name for a software package in case it changed. One of my clients has decided to use schema-based DocBook, eschewing DTDs. (I'm still not entirely sure of the basis for that decision, except that schemas are The Future). We use XInclude for local modularization (one chapter in a file, for example), and standardized reference elements for broadly resuable content (boilerplate legal notices, for example). And we've also introduced variable references that are resolved by the stylesheet; e.g. <variablereference ref="productname"/> will pull the name of this product from the front matter of the manual. ~Chris - -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, crism consulting XML-SGML-HTML-DTDs-schemas-XSL-DSSSL-conversion-training-ebooks-B2B <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBQJFvAKxS+CWv7FjaEQL7JQCgyDlGHprxLzs8zvGOJnlZBXgxDssAnAvt DBjDRvUVPFT7Tjzb/M9dorJz =bCEq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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