Hi Christopher, We solve this problem at various levels of complexity. The first level is to put the ENTITY elements in the header of your document. Once you have more than 5 or 10, though, it gets unwieldy.
So, what we usually do is collect all of them together and put them into a mydoc/entities.sgml file, and include that file as an entity with this kind of declaration in our header: <!ENTITY % myentities SYSTEM "mydoc/entities.sgml"> %myentities; You can find a more detailed explanation of this and other ways we use entities in our in-house manual, on these and other pages: http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-entities.html http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-axentitydeclarationfiles.html http://developers.cogentrts.com/cogent/prepdoc/pd-cascadedrivermanuals.html Hope that helps, Bob Christopher J. Graham wrote: > a bit uncertain... is it possible to do that in line? Otherwise I would have > lots of ENTITY elemets in my header. > > <para><!ENTITY test-a "my example text">&test-a;</para> > ... > <para>&test-a;</para> > > > on 3/20/2002 3:22 PM, Camille Bégnis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>"Christopher J. Graham" a écrit : >> >>>Hello all: >>> >>>Is it possible to have the same <para> (or any other element) content in two >>>locations? I am trying to make sure that if it is edited in one location, >>>then the other is also updated. >>> >>Simply define an entity: >>http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/ch01.html#s-entities >> >>Camille. >> >> >>>For instance, >>> >>><para>text-a</para> >>>. >>>. >>>. >>><para>text-a</para> >>> >>>Regards >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>Christopher Graham >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>>PGP Fingerprint: F765 CCB5 B9CF 1285 7E3E 8CB0 0B1B 8454 9D66 D411 >>> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Christopher Graham > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PGP Fingerprint: F765 CCB5 B9CF 1285 7E3E 8CB0 0B1B 8454 9D66 D411 > > > > --------------------------------------- Robert McIlvride ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Cogent Real-Time Systems (www.cogent.ca)
