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Re: where to store entity references
- From: Robert McIlvride <robert at cogent dot ca>
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:34:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: where to store entity references
- Organization: Cogent Real-Time Systems, Inc.
- References: <DBFC1C91-95C8-11D6-95D5-0050E4857868@hhbrown.com>
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 14:54:56 -0400
Erik Price <pricee@hhbrown.com> wrote:
...
> Instead of putting all of the entities directly at this point, can I
> just keep them in their separate file and declare an entity reference to
> the file full of entity declarations?
...
Yes, we do it all the time.
>
> Now will all of my entities (in that file) be "included" into the
> document?
>
>
> The other question I have is, can I specify a relative path to a file in
> an external general entity reference? Like above? Or should it start
> with "./path/to/file" to indicate "current working directory"?
>
> Or must those paths be absolute?
They can be relative. If you like you can refer to our in-house manual for more explanation and examples:
http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-entities.html#AEN850
Cheerio!
Bob
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Robert McIlvride (robert@cogent.ca)
Cogent Real-Time Systems (www.cogent.ca)