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From: Dave Brondsema <dave@brondsema.net>
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Johannes Schaefer wrote:

> Hi!
>
> We have to use a lot of icons from an external source
> and see two possiblities to reference them:
>
> 1) <img href="http://www.intranet.com/iconrepository/icon001.png">
> 2) <img href="ext:iconrepository/icon001">
>
> Number 1 is hard to maintain if the address changes
> Number 2 gives a long list of ext: entries in site.xml
>
> Is there a better alternative?
>

IIRC, ext:iconrepository/icon001.png would work.  You only have to define
iconrespository in site.xml and not children for each file.

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