Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to entities?

["Gurra Green" <gurra_green at hotmail dot com>]

Thanks everybody! I lean towards using Jirka's suggestion with the 
role="ent" attribute on phrase since it will work for both PDF and HTML 
generation.

However, there is a backside with the solution when using XMLMind (again, I 
don't like violating things just because a tool prevents me from doing it in 
a correct way, but that's my situation), that since the <phrase> tag is not 
visible in the running text view it is easy to edit it and remove the 
tagging. This happened to me when experimenting and it took a while to 
figure out what had happened.

I got another idea though: what if I created an xref with some role (or 
xrefstyle) to remove the link functionality (clickable) and other custom 
visuals (color) since I am only interesting in the target text (endterm), 
and in the link end I somehow suppress rendering alltogether? The editor 
handles Xrefs in a quite nice way.

A problem is my very limited experience in writing customization layers, I 
mostly copy-paste others examples to produce my desired results... But what 
about the idea to start with?

 /Gurra

> From: Colin Paul Adams <colin@colina.demon.co.uk>
> To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
> CC: davep@dpawson.co.uk, Gurra Green <gurra_green@hotmail.com>,        
> Docbook-Apps <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to entities?
> Date: 17 Jan 2005 19:20:17 +0000
>
> >>>>> "Jirka" == Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> writes:
>
>     Jirka> Dave Pawson wrote:
>     >> Not speaking from experience.  If an xinclude aware processor
>     >> is used, could that stand in for XML entities Jirka?
>
>     Jirka> Yep, you can use something like
>
>     Jirka> <xi:include href="entities.xml#productname"/>
>
>     Jirka> to pull element from external file entities.xml:
>
>     Jirka> <root> <phrase xml:id="productname">SuperSoft v3.5</phrase>
>     Jirka> ...  </root>
>
>
> What about using one <xi:include href="...." parse="text"/> element for 
> each phrase to
> be substituted (with a different URL for each constant text phrase)?
> --
> Colin Paul Adams
> Preston Lancashire

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