Docbook: Centralized glossary, where each document includes only terms which appear in it?

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Published on 2011-11-21T16:40:32Z Indexed on 2011/11/21 17:57 UTC
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Trying to figure out if this (or something similar) is possible.

I'm working with a collection of technical documents, all written in DocBook. The documents each contain many acronyms, technical terms and other jargon, so we need to include a glossary with each of them.

The ideal situation would be this: I have a central glossary.xml file which contains a glossentry item (or similar) for each such term; then, each of the documents uses that glossary file, but only prints out the terms which appear IN that document. So, each document has its own glossary printed at the end, but the actual glossary entries are stored centrally.

Is that doable?

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