Re: [docbook-apps] Alternative to internal entities?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Paul A. Hoadley wrote:

> Obviously this is not a DocBook-specific question, but are there any
> alternatives to internal entities for macro-like text substitution?  I
> have pretty much completely moved from PSGML to nxml-mode for DocBook
> editing, and I would like to try and eliminate use of DOCTYPEs.
> However, I quite like declaring entities in the internal subset for
> simple text substitution.  Is there a lighter-weight alternative to
> XInclude?  For one application, I used an entity to refer to the
> working name for a software package in case it changed.  It seems a
> bit excessive to XInclude a separate file to expand what would be,
> say, a two character entity to the name of a software package.  Is
> there an alternative?

Unfortunately there is no way to define entity without having !DOCTYPE 
if you want have your documents well-formed XML 1.0 or 1.1. This is a 
big problem as we can't throw away DTDs until it is resolved.

					Jirka

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