Re: Help needed to use ENTITY in docbook5 (convert from docbook4)

Thank you, Jirka, for clearing this up.  I actually covered this topic 
of text entities with XIncludes in my book, where I recommended using a 
central entity definition file that is referenced by all modular files 
in their DOCTYPES to ensure the same set of entities are available 
everywhere, and can be updated in a central location:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularEntities.html

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]

On 5/28/2018 3:08 AM, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> On 25.5.2018 9:23, victory wrote:
>> I think this is caused by this change:
>> https://github.com/docbook/docbook.org/issues/17
> Please note that there were not made change. The problem is that with
> DocBook 4 people usually used external entities to break document into
> several smaller files. If this approach is used entities defined in the
> main file are inherited to files included via entity mechanism.
>
> For DocBook 5 XInclude is usually used for modularity. With XInclude
> situation is different. Each xincluded file is parsed separately and
> does not inherit entity declarations from the main file. So with
> XInclude entity declarations has to be repeated at the beginning of each
> file.
>
> But in fact this is not directly related to differences between DocBook
> 4 and 5. You can use XInclude with DocBook 4 or external entities with
> DocBook 5.
>
> But using entities for accented characters in 2018 seems really wrong.
> Appropriate Unicode characters should be used directly in the files.
>
> 				Jirka
>
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