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Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to internal entities?
- From: Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>
- To: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh at logicsquad dot net>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 17:43:10 +0900
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to internal entities?
- References: <20040427082139.GE34008@grover.logicsquad.net>
Just came across this today:
Entity Definition Markup Language
http://www.talsever.org/xml/edml.html
"Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Obviously this is not a DocBook-specific question, but are there any
> alternatives to internal entities for macro-like text substitution? I
> have pretty much completely moved from PSGML to nxml-mode for DocBook
> editing, and I would like to try and eliminate use of DOCTYPEs.
> However, I quite like declaring entities in the internal subset for
> simple text substitution. Is there a lighter-weight alternative to
> XInclude? For one application, I used an entity to refer to the
> working name for a software package in case it changed. It seems a
> bit excessive to XInclude a separate file to expand what would be,
> say, a two character entity to the name of a software package. Is
> there an alternative?
>
>
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