XML editor with entity abilities

["Marroc Danderfluff" <marrocdanderfluff -at- yahoo -dot- co -dot- in>]

Hi all,

I have a knotty problem to solve. I want to use an XML file to contain the
structure of a document while the content is contained in separate entity
files. I am talking about DocBook but I guess it is a general XML question.

Here is the kind of structure I want to work with:
<book>
    <chapter>
        <entity filename="content1.txt">
        <section>
            <entity filename="content2.txt">
                <section>
                    <entity filename="content3.txt">
.
.
.
</book>

Which would relate to a filestore with following files:
    book.xml, content1.txt, content2.txt, content3.txt

The entities might contain something similar to:
<Title>Title text</Title>
<Para>Content here</Para>
<Table.... you get the idea

So, by having the entities separate, I can develop more than one structure
file to reference the content files and therefore reuse the content for
variant publications.

Sound good?

Now, my solution must work for a team of authors so I have further
requirements as follows:
- I want a WYSIWYM editor that can work with content entities

- I want to be able to edit the structure with the entity <Title> elements
showing (like MS Word's outline view) for ease of use

- I want to be able to edit the entities in-line in the book using WYSIWYM
but with the structure file and/or other entities locked for changes
(concurrent working by multiple authors)

Can anyone help me by suggesting tools I can investigate or approaches that
may work? Has anyone done this before? I imagine it is a well trodden route
but I can't find anything on the web. My mind is like an empty bucket
waiting to be filled!

Thanks in advance,
Marroc


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