Hello Sascha, Now I understand. You want to expand only the %entitiesxcom; reference in the DOCTYPE declaration. I suggest a find and replace operation on all DocBook chapter files using a regular expression that matches the entity reference. Unfortunately you can't do it in only one action in the Oxygen application because the replace part in the Find/Replace in Files dialog box (Ctrl+Shift+H) is not multi-line enabled yet. But you can do the replacement in one action per DocBook XML file, in the Find/Replace dialog box (Ctrl+F or menu Find -> FInd/Replace), using the following value in the "Find" area: <!ENTITY % entitiesxcom SYSTEM "entitiesxcom.ent">(\s*?)%entitiesxcom; and the following multi-line value in the "Replace with" area: <!ENTITY company "Acme Widgets, Inc."> <!ENTITY product "Top Widget"> You have to enable also the options "Regular expression" and "Dot matches all" in the Find/Replace dialog box. We will consider also adding multi-line support for the replace value in the Find/Replace in Files dialog box (Ctrl+Shift+H). Best regards, Sorin <oXygen/> XML Editor http://www.oxygenxml.com Sascha Manns wrote:
In my present file i have anything like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % entitiesxcom SYSTEM "entitiesxcom.ent"> %entitiesxcom; ]> <chapter id="cha.mychapter" lang="de" xml:base="cha-mychapter.xml"> <title>My Chapter</title> [...] </chapter>
With using the copy.xsl it outputs: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><chapter id="cha.mychapter" lang="de" xml:base="cha-mychapter.xml"> <title>My Chapter</title> </chapter>
My goal ist anything like that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY company "Acme Widgets, Inc."> <!ENTITY product "Top Widget"> ]> <chapter id="cha.mychapter" lang="de" xml:base="cha-mychapter.xml"> <title>My Chapter</title> [...] </chapter>
Do you know what i mean?
Greetings Sascha