Re: Beginner questions...

[Norman Walsh <ndw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

/ Glauber Ribeiro <glauber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
| (1) Suppose i have a document with 5 tables which are defined
| identically. How can i define a table once and then reuse its definition
| without doing "cut and paste"?

You can't. Separating content from markup isn't one of the strengths of
SGML or XML. Separating content from presentation is.

| (2) Through experimentation, i found out that i can use &quot; (as in
| HTML) to insert a quote. Where can i find a list of the standard
| entities supported by SGML (or is it by DocBook)?

I can't think of an online reference off the top of my head.
(It's in my book, but that's still grinding slowly through the
O'Reilly production process.) They're also in the back of Eve's
book, I think:

<bibliomixed id="Maler96"><surname>Maler</surname>, <firstname>Eve</firstname> and <surname>
El Andaloussi</surname>, <firstname>Jeanne</firstname>. <title>Developing
SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup</title>. <isbn>0&ndash;13&ndash;309881&ndash;8
</isbn>. <publishername>Prentice-Hall PTR</publishername>. Upper Saddle River,
New Jersey. 1996.</bibliomixed>

Or you can look in the ISO entity sets themselves. At least the names
are in there.

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm
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