[xml2rfc] Including ENTITIES

[dbharrington at comcast.net (David B Harrington)]

Hi,

I am writing a template for MIB module documents, that I eventualy
might submit to be merged with the existng tempates for xml2rfc.

My template lays out the xml2rfc file with certain required
boilerplates, and with the sections ordered in a preferred order, and
so on, to help the MIB Doctors perform their reviews more quickly and
efficiently. One factor that applies to MIB modules is that they have
a MIB Definitions section that contains a MIB module that should be
passed through a validator such as smilint.
 
I am looking for a mechanism to "include" a text file (i.e., a MIB
module that can run through a MIB compiler) into an xml2rfc document
in a manner that is XML-valid (i.e. not using the xml2rfc include
directive). 

I tried using an ENTITY, but xml2rfc didn't like it when I referenced
it as &mibfile; in a <figure><artwork> context. I suspect it didn't
like it because &mibfile; should refer to an external parsed general
entity. 

Would xml2rfc be able to support an unparsed entity:
<!ENTITY foo-mib STSTEM "foo.mib" NDATA mib>
<artwork mib='foo-mib'>
Or somwething similar?

Any suggestions?

David Harrington
FutureWei Technologies, a Huawei company
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