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Re: where to store entity references


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)


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