July 2004
Intermediate to advanced
479 pages
12h 30m
English
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Create Books, Technical Manuals, and Papers in XML with DocBook
If you are writing a book, a manual, or a specification, DocBook provides an unsurpassed vocabulary for collecting your thoughts and words in XML form.
DocBook (http://www.docbook.org/) is an XML vocabulary or document type that is suited for books, technical manuals, and papers about computer hardware and software. Work on DocBook began in 1991 as a joint project of O’Reilly and HaL Computer Systems (Fujitsu). The effort evolved and was taken over by a group of technical documentation experts called the Davenport Group in 1994. In 1998, DocBook came under the control of a technical committee at OASIS (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook). For more details on the history of DocBook, see http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/intro.shtml.
Initially, DocBook was an SGML document type, but after the emergence of XML, an XML DTD was offered as well. Currently, you can download DocBook as an SGML DTD (http://www.docbook.org/sgml/), an XML DTD (http://www.docbook.org/xml/), a RELAX NG schema (http://www.docbook.org/rng/) in either XML or compact syntax, or an XML Schema (http://www.docbook.org/xsd/). At this point, the SGML and XML DTDs are the official versions of DocBook, and the RELAX NG and XML Schema forms should become official when DocBook reaches Version 5.
Following is a sampling of the kinds of elements you can use to mark up a document with DocBook:
Books, manuals, articles, papers
Tables ...
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