RE: [docbook-apps] How to share custom entity definitions across documents

[Jeff Beal <jeff dot beal at ansys dot com>]

You can create a single file containing all of your shared entity
declarations and then include it in each of your files.

For example, you could have a file named "global.ent" that would look
something like:

  <!ENTITY mystring "My String">
  <!ENTITY another_string "Another String">

Then, the DOCTYPE declaration for each file would be:
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook 4.2 XML//EN" "http://www...."; [
 <!ENTITY % global_entities SYSTEM "global.ent">
  %global_entities;
]>

(Note the use of the percent sign (%)  when declaring such "parameter
entities" that include DTD declarations.)

Jeff Beal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taro Ikai [mailto:tikai@ABINITIO.COM]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 2:04 PM
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook-apps] How to share custom entity definitions across
> documents
> 
> 
> I want to share entity definitions across multiple Docbook documents.
> 
> Is there a way to do this? For example, I want to have:
> 
>   <!ENTITY mystring "My String">
> 
> in one place, and be able to reference it by &mystring; from many 
> documents.
> 
> How can I do this? Do I have to modify the DTD? 
> 
> Taro
> 
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