bash script and xml document

[arcanix]

i am working on a script that will automate encoding a video and then author the video files
here is the code in the author function i have dvdauthor and it calles an xml document is there a way to embed that doc in the code so i don't have to have it with my script in the same folder

#!/bin/sh

# ToDo
#Variables


#functions
encode()
{
	mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=720:576,harddup \
	-srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \
	-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:\
	acodec=ac3:abitrate=192 -ofps 30000/1001 -o ${V_NAME}.mpg $V_NAME
}

author()
{
	dvdauthor -o dvd -x dvd.xml
}




# main
echo "what is the name of the file"
read V_NAME
encode && author

[scm]

I'm not familiar with dvdauthor but if you can persuade it to take the xml from stdin you can either "echo" the text in, or use a "here" document:

echo "dvd.xml text
more text" | dvdauthor

or

dvdauthor <<EOF
dvd.xml text
more text
EOF

[arcanix]

thanks a lot
that did it i made a here doc and it made the file dvdauthor took it thanks a lot
now if i can get one thing to run at a time it would work like a champ