I would prefer to use an entity like <!ENTITY primATP "<primary sortas='ATP'>ATP, (Adenosin-Tri-Phosphat)</primary>" > But I get the idea. I was not aware if the "sortas" attribute, therefore the question. Thanks a lot. Bernhard Am 10.05.2018 um 18:49 schrieb Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex:
Using a pure markup language, rather than a Turing-complete macro-expanding programming language, has its merits and its drawbacks.
Why don’t you use the established internal subset mechanism for centralizing these indexterm definitions?
Example: <!ENTITY idx_ATP "<indexterm><primary sortas='ATP'>ATP, (Adenosin-Tri-Phosphat)</primary></indexterm>" >
You can think of other methods for avoiding repetition, for example, (mis-) using <xref> for pointing to the first occurrence of an indexterm with a certain content:
<indexterm xml:id="idx_ATP"><primary sortas='ATP'>ATP, (Adenosin-Tri-Phosphat)</primary></indexterm> … <xref linkend="idx_ATP"/>
but then you can’t use DocBook XSL’s rendering out of the box.
Gerrit
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