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 <>
>To: Jirka Kosek <>
>CC: , Gurra Green <>,
>Docbook-Apps <>
>Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to entities?
>Date: 17 Jan 2005 19:20:17 +0000
>
> >>>>> "Jirka" == Jirka Kosek <> 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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