Sorry, it looks like either Gmail or the list santized my ulink. If set the url= in the ulink to &MYURL;/awesomefile.txt, is where it works.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:14 PM, AdamD. <[email protected]> wrote: > I've looked around the internet for examples of using expanded entities as > ulink URLs, but in all the instances I've found they use the entire link, > such as: > > <!ENTITIY myurl "http://www.thisismy.com/url";> or, the entire <ulink> tag > structure as the entity. > > What I'm looking to do is use an entity to represent just part of a URL, > leading up to the final file. I'm trying to put links to files distributed > via HTTP, and while the filenames should remain fairly constant the DNS > name/HTTP link of the URL may change names, and not having to go update > individual URLs all through a document would be a huge time-saver. > > What seems to work when locally built (HTML, PDF, etc. on local machine) > is putting the entity in the .ent file like <!ENTITY MYURL " > http://docs.mysite.com/itfiles/tutorial";> and the ulink as: > > <ulink url="&MYURL;/awesomefile.txt">file</ulink> > > This correctly generates the URL to the external site in the PDF, HTML, > etc. However, when this is packaged as an RPM and deployed on the > documentation site, it makes the final URL as displayed " > http://docs.mysite.com/awesomefile.txt"; instead of pointing to the > correct external link (which happens to be on the same server, just a > different URL). > > I saw a post about using correct XML, and putting the entity as > "&MYURL;", but this just makes the URL " > http://docs.mysite.com/&MYURL/awesomefile.txt"; without expanding the > entity, taking the literal text. > > Is there a proper way to do this, if at all? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Adam D. > -- Adam D.
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