OT: (x)?html question
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Dec 20 07:02:14 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:07 -0800, Don Russell wrote:
> I thought there was a way in html to define an "entity" and then use
> that throughout the document.
>
> So, for example I might have something that appears in multiple places
> but I only want to code it once:
>
> I was thinking of something like...
> <meta entity="callno" content="1(123)555-1212"/>
Quickly looking at <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/>, it looks like you can
create new entities for referencing particular characters (e.g. you can
make your own ®istered; to refer to the character used to represent
®), but it doesn't seem to suggest that you can use it for a whole
string of characters.
> Then I could use &callno; in the body of the document and the browser
> would properly substitute the specified value.
>
> I suppose I could write a little javascript function and then use
> <script>...</script> to call it as needed and the function would use
> document.write.... but that really is overkill, and I'd prefer not to
> REQUIRE javascript.
>
> Any suggestions?
Non-XHTML alternative solutions:
Search and replace in your text editor, if it's for a once off authoring
solution.
SSI for webpages that might need their variables updated. I do that for
my price lists. One "include" source gets updated, and any page that
refers to some particular item's price shows the current one.
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