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Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to entities?
- From: Dave Pawson <davep at dpawson dot co dot uk>
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- Cc: Gurra Green <gurra_green at hotmail dot com>, Docbook-Apps <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:10:09 +0000
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to entities?
- References: <BAY15-F216453C5D9C42A3BD4875988E0@phx.gbl> <41EBD7CE.6040505@kosek.cz>
- Reply-to: davep at dpawson dot co dot uk
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 16:20 +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> Gurra Green wrote:
>
> > Does anybody have any suggestions on alternate methods for accomplishing
> > the same thing? It feels wrong to misuse DocBook because of an
> > incomplete tool, but the XMLMind editor has a number of verynice
> > features why I am reluctant to switching the whole company to another
> > editor. I have googled for others with the same problem, but not found
> > anything. Grateful for any suggestions, including makefile/perl hacks if
> > no "native" DocBook mechanism could be used.
>
> One possible workaround is to use some element as indicator of entity.
Not speaking from experience.
If an xinclude aware processor is used,
could that stand in for XML entities Jirka?
I.e. provide the same functionality, without the parser hassle.
regards DaveP