[Techtalk] More Docbook how-can-I?

[David Merrill]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:27:22PM +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> Oh yes, and is there any way to include an external file, like LaTeX's
> \include{} command? I'd like to include the same set of questions in
> each FAQ, and would prefer not to have to maintain ten copies, or even a
> script, because I'll hand over to a new FAQ maintainer at some point.

Yes, by declaring an "entity". Put a declaration like this just below
your doctype declaration:

<!entity foo system "foo.sgml">

Then put:

&foo;

wherever you want the contents of foo.sgml inserted. It works just
like any other include functionality in other languages.

hth,

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