Re: [generguide-devel] Commented entities cause serious problem

[Cameron S. <ca...@sh...>]

On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 2:08 am, Sean Wheller wrote:
> --- Artur Hefczyc <ko...@pl...> wrote:
> > They can not be used as attributes values because
> > comments are not allowed there.
> >
> > However I found it useful to use them as values
> > of attributes in some places.
> >
> > Cameron: I am not sure if we decided to permanently
> > remove comments around entities?

Yes, but we have not done it yet.

> > Can I use not-commented entities?

Yes.

>
> Artur
>
> I for one cannot see why not. XXE does support them
> and will leave them unchanged, so long as the target
> does not have other nested entities in which case it
> will break down the entity until only those entities
> without nested entities remain. Entities can't be
> edited directly (gray). To edit them you must open the
> target in a new window.

Sean, I'm not sure how to get XXE to edit entities.  When I open one of the 
generguide files (eg: cvs.xml), I get the following error message from XXE:

<quote>
Document "/home/cameron/.../generguide/guide/cvs.xml" contains reference such 
as "&cvs_url;" wich are not managed by XMLmind XML Editor.  If you edit this 
document with XMLmind XML Editor and save your changes, these references will 
be replaced by their corresponding contents.
</quote>

If you have an example docbook file with entities that XXE can edit, can you 
please forward it through so that I can work out what we are doing wrong with 
our entities.

PS, Sean, I'm finding it a bit hard working out your availability and if you 
are receiving my emails to generguide-devel.  I don't mind if you have other 
things in your life which are higher priority than generguide, it just makes 
it easier for me to know that:
1. you received the email.
2. you have not got time to work on it now, or you will get to it on the 
weekend or something.
In particular, I was interested to hear your feedback on: 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3180265&forum_id=33812

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