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Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobjecttoinsert external files
- From: Karl Eichwalder <ke at gnu dot franken dot de>
- To: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
- Cc: Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 09:20:15 +0100
- Subject: DOCBOOK: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobjecttoinsert external files
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- Reply-to: Karl Eichwalder <keichwa at gmx dot net>
Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> writes:
> Because they need fresh and actual copy of some external file (eg.
> program source) in a document.
Define your files as entities and use entity references. Write a
Makefile to preprocess the files if it's necessary to escape special
SGML/XML characters.
The hacks you're offering to users makes their life difficult (but the
hacks save IT jobs, though).
> Look at TEI. Then DocBook will look as simple as 1+1=2. ;-))
TEI is a completely different story. First and for all TEI is there to
allow "tagging" existing documents.
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