[publican-list] Partial URL Entity Expansion in ulink?

[AdamD.]

Sorry, it looks like either Gmail or the list santized my ulink. If set the
url= in the ulink to &MYURL;/awesomefile.txt, is where it works.


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:14 PM, AdamD. <adam820 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've looked around the internet for examples of using expanded entities as
> ulink URLs, but in all the instances I've found they use the entire link,
> such as:
>
> <!ENTITIY myurl "http://www.thisismy.com/url"> or, the entire <ulink> tag
> structure as the entity.
>
> What I'm looking to do is use an entity to represent just part of a URL,
> leading up to the final file. I'm trying to put links to files distributed
> via HTTP, and while the filenames should remain fairly constant the DNS
> name/HTTP link of the URL may change names, and not having to go update
> individual URLs all through a document would be a huge time-saver.
>
> What seems to work when locally built (HTML, PDF, etc. on local machine)
> is putting the entity in the .ent file like <!ENTITY MYURL "
> http://docs.mysite.com/itfiles/tutorial"> and the ulink as:
>
> <ulink url="&MYURL;/awesomefile.txt">file</ulink>
>
> This correctly generates the URL to the external site in the PDF, HTML,
> etc. However, when this is packaged as an RPM and deployed on the
> documentation site, it makes the final URL as displayed  "
> http://docs.mysite.com/awesomefile.txt" instead of pointing to the
> correct external link (which happens to be on the same server, just a
> different URL).
>
> I saw a post about using correct XML, and putting the entity as
> "&MYURL;", but this just makes the URL "
> http://docs.mysite.com/&MYURL/awesomefile.txt" without expanding the
> entity, taking the literal text.
>
> Is there a proper way to do this, if at all?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Adam D.
>



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Adam D.
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