Dear Bon Stayton,
A website is put together by Javad Heshmati
(http://www.khakbaz.com/javad), using the DocBook Website DTD and XSL,
Apache Ant, etc. In the latest version, which is not still released, my
task as a contributor was to define parameter entities and store all
entities in a repository that derives separate files containing olink
and acronym references--among other things.
I did as I explained and built the website. It works fine, except the
XML sources, which are not viewable, anymore. When the visitors happen
to click on the XML source link, an error occurs because the entity
references are not recognizable by the browser. It can't trace the
entity path by nature. In fact, they can view the source of the error
handled page and that's what they need, but it's not probably pleasant
for them to do so.
I was wondering if I could process my XML sources, before putting them
in evidence. By all means, a processor that can replace the required
entities. For instance, the Apache Ant can handle it, can't it?
Have you already had the similar experience to use parameter entities in
order for all entity references to be stored separately and show the XML
source on a browser at the same time? Although, the XML source of
DocBook documents (a book, for example), does not necessarily need to be
shown, unless it's within an archive. If yes, you've doubtlessly
influenced your XML documents before publishing them. But how? If no,
what do you recommend me to do, to keep my entities in a repository and
have a valid XML? (from browser's viewpoint, because in the new version,
they have all been verified to comply with DocBook Website).
I've read the relevant sections in "DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide" and
found the method that you've proposed to manage olinks (Linking between
pages) matching my case. Is that really, what I need?
In the meantime, I would like to thank you for the decency you shown me
in the preceding problem solving.
Sincerely yours,
Sina
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Tools utilized along with their versions
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Platform: Redhat Linux 8.0
DocBook Website: 2.5
Build Tool: Ant 1.5.4
Web Browser: Mozilla 1.5, 1.2.1
Java: j2se 1.4
XSLT Processor: Saxon 7.8
Version Management: CVS 1.11.2-8
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