[Springframework-developer] DocBook and XmlMind: dealing with entity refs?

[Stuart R. <stu...@gm...>]

The Spring docs nicely break chapters out into separate files, with
entity refs in the index.

I've read all of the posts on Docbook, and it seems most of you are
using XmlMind.  The tool is really growing on me.

But when I open the index.xml, XmlMind resolves all entity refs
immediately, pulling the full guide into a single document.  Saving
replaces the "modular" index with the all-in-one version.

My question is how are you dealing with this usin XmlMind (or is there
another tool you use?  Vex seems stale and doesn't appear to work
anymore).  Do you edit the "aggregator pages" by hand, and only use
XmlMind for the "leaf" pages?  It looks like that messes up cross
referencing though - it seems every document must include entity refs
to pages it needs to cross reference (though I might be wrong - just
learning).

Anyway, if any docbook veterans have any pointers, they'd be much
appreciated.  The Spring docs are beautiful, and I'd like to
understand how they're done.