I guess you noticed that if you create an
entity that includes an id attribute and use that entity more than once,
then your document will no longer be valid. Attributes of xml type ID must
be unique within the document, even if they are not referenced. Of course,
the reason for this rule is so that references to such an id would not be
ambigious.
You could create an entity that consists
only of the listitems (if they don't have id attributes). Then you could
use them in several places with different id values for the list element
wrapper:
<!ENTITY listitems
"<listitem>
<para>First
one</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Another</para>
</listitem>">
And in your document use it
as:
<itemizedlist
id="firsttime">
&listitems;
</itemizedlist>
and
<itemizedlist
id="secondtime">
&listitems;
</itemizedlist>
If your listitems must have id attributes,
then it gets more complicated, as each such listitem would need to be an
entity.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
----- Original Message -----
From:
René Haché
To:
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 1:07 PM
Subject: [docbook] repeating/re-occuring
info
To
whom it may concern,
I
have a list in my docbook that I would like to re-occur in a few spots in my
document. I could do it by making that list an entity, but wouldn't that screw
up linking and cross-references to point to that list? Just want to avoid
copying/pasting.
Also, I am unclear whether or not a cross-reference needs a link
wrapper to create a link to the location of that
cross-reference.
My
apologies if the terminology is not correct, since I only a beginner with
docbook.
Many Thanks,
René
