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Re: need help ,how do i
- To: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org, madhu <b_maddy_016 at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: need help ,how do i
- From: Camille Begnis <camille at mandrakesoft dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 10:36:07 -0400
- Organization: MandrakeSoft
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Hi madhu,
I had this preoblem some time ago. This is what Norman replied:
[snip]-----------------------------------------
Personally, I use the following "hack"
<inlinegraphic fileref="fr/snippet.txt" format="linespecific">
My DSSSL stylesheets support this and the XSL stylesheets support it
with a little post-processing.
[snip]-----------------------------------------
Camille.
madhu wrote:
>
> hi
> i have marked my document like this
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" [
> <!ENTITY chap1 SYSTEM "/home/maddy/alsa-howto/SGML/info.sgm">
> so till chap11
> <!ENTITY chngs1 SYSTEM "/home/maddy/alsa-howto/RefChng/chngs1.txt">
> ]>
> &chap1; so on till &chngs1;
> <BOOK>all my stuff goes here
> </BOOK>
> in one of the chapters i have tried to reffer to the entity "chngs1"
> like this within a screen element
> <screen>
> &chngs1;
> </screen>
> i get a nsgmls error :
> nsgmls:/home/maddy/alsa-howto/RefChng/chngs1.txt:1:0:E: character data is not
> allowed here
> also the effect is not rendered as intended .obviously ;-)
> i wanted a .txt file to included since it makes my job easier ,i do not need
> to maintain this manual on a day to day basis since sometimes there is a
> bug,tweak fix for the drivers ,it becomes a pain to maintain so what i wanted
> was a text file which the developer /s can just update and reparse the
> document and update .less prone to errors this eliminates the developer need to
> fully understand docbook
> can anybody help
> this should be possible right ?
>
> or is it farfetched idea to use <link linkend ="path to the
> text file on the server ">changes.txt</link>
> will it render it properly with in a file
> appreciate all help
>
> thank you in advance
> regartds
> --
> maddy
>
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