As discussed on fedora-docs-list here: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2004-November/msg00007.html ...I've created a file for adding "About this Document" boilerplate in all Fedora Docs. You need to set up some entities in each document that uses it. This bug is an RFE to track that this idea actually gets carried out.
Can the CVS instructions become an XML snippet? And if they do, will the tools we use "recurse" through the CVS snippet to replace entities therein with entities derived from the document itself? In other words, in bad pseudo-DocBook, if: mydoc.xml: <!ENTITY URL "http://somewhere"> <!ENTITY CVSDIRECTIONS "cvs.xml"> Blah blah &CVSDIRECTIONS; cvs.xml: Blah blah Visit &URL;. Then do we get this: Blah blah Blah blah Visit http://somewhere. ...?
These changes have more or less become standard with our docs-common/common entities. Enhancements can be requested through the "docs-requests" component of the Fedora Documentation product in Bugzilla. Closing.