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	The DocBook Project
		DocBook is an XML vocabulary that lets you create documents in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure of your content.
		DocBook Wiki provides a comprehensive variety of up-to-date details about DocBook, including user-contributed information and links, in a format that you can edit and add to.
		DocBook FAQ is a a collation of a large number of Frequently Asked questions regarding Docbook.
	docbook.sourceforge.net (378 words)

	DocBook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		DocBook is a markup language for technical documentation.
		DocBook is available in both SGML and XML forms, as a DTD.
		DocBook originally started as an SGML application, but an equivalent XML application was developed and has now replaced the SGML one for most uses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DocBook (657 words)

	A gentle guide to DocBook
		DocBook is a bit more involved than HTML, but it is also much more useful than plain HTML because it facilitates the rendering of multiple formats from a single document.
		Since then DocBook gone through four major versions and now is under the guidance of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, better known as OASIS (see Resources).
		Occasionally, the term DocBook is also used as a catchall term to describe the markup language and the tools used to convert DocBook documents into other formats.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/library/l-docbk.html (2079 words)

	Cover Pages: DocBook XML DTD
		DocBook is supported 'out of the box' by a number of commercial tools, and there is rapidly expanding support for it in a number of free software environments.
		DocBook and DITA are competitors, at least to the extent that both are aimed at the technical documentation market.
		The DocBook Technical Committee is pleased to announce the release of DocBook V4.2 Release Candidate 1 in XML and SGML.
	xml.coverpages.org /docBook.html (4401 words)

	DocBook Tools and Resources
		There are literally hundreds of DocBook parameters that control everything from the colour and borders of tables to the alignment of text and headings to the location of graphics.
		DocBook Frequently Asked Questions, which is a comprehensive FAQ about authoring with DocBook and using the DocBook stylesheets.
		DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, which is the best reference available for the DocBook XSL stylesheets.
	www.scottnesbitt.net /techdocs/docbook_tools.html (3127 words)

	XML.com: The Making of the DocBook DTD
		The development of the DocBook DTD is also a success story that has additional interest to the XML development community; many of those who developed DocBook have gone on to become major contributors to the development of XML.
		DocBook's original design goal was to enable the interchange of computer documentation.
		She has been involved Conleth O'Connell, who was one of the members of the HaL team to found the Davenport Group and a member of the original DocBook design team, went to work at Vignette where he has been one of the lead developers of the ICE syndication specification.
	www.xml.com /pub/a/1999/10/docbook/docbook-making.html (1607 words)

	DocBook XML Resources at CERN
		DocBook is primarily an XML vocabulary (defined by a DTD, Docoment Type Definition) which maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS.
		A Crash Course in DocBook (be careful, they still use the DSSSL stylesheets instead of XML and the XSL stylesheets, but the text is educational per se).
		DocBook XSL Stylesheet Reference Documentation describes the precise meaning of the various parameters used in these examples.
	xml.web.cern.ch /XML/docbook.html (659 words)

	XML Matters: Getting comfortable with the DocBook XML dialect
		DocBook is a rather complex DTD with hundreds of elements.
		DocBook is detailed enough that you need some automation to ensure conformance to the DTD.
		DocBook: The Definitive Guide, Norman Walsh and Leonard Muellner, O'Reilly, Cambridge, MA 1999 is the best place to get started in a more detailed understanding of DocBook.
	www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/library/x-matters4.html (1733 words)

	DocBook.org
		DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide by Bob Stayton and published by Sagehill Enterprises is the definitive guide to using the DocBook XSL stylesheets.
		DocBook V5.0CR5 is the fifth Candidate Release of DocBook V5.0.
		DocBook is general purpose XML and SGML document type particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).
	www.docbook.org (287 words)

	Doc Book
		O'Reilly use DocBook to author their books and it is the standard documentation format for several computer vendors and for various Linux and OpenSource projects.
		DocBook has a long and varied history (it started as SGML DTD and is now an XML DTD) and has been used by many different companies (from O'Reilly to Boeing to the LinuxDocumentationProject to the Pentagon) to create many different types of output (PostScript, PDF, RichTextFormat, plain old Text, HTML, and PalmPilot doc files).
		The main benefit of DocBook has over TeX, so I've been told by someone who has a lot of experience in both, is that DocBook is easier to translate into other formats because documents are data files rather than executable programs that control a type setter.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?DocBook (544 words)

	XML & DocBook: Structured Technical Documentation Authoring \| Linux Journal
		DocBook is well-known in the Linux community and is used by many publishing companies and open-source development projects.
		DocBook XML source is fed to the XSLT processor together with the XML DTD, XML catalog and XSLT stylesheet.
		DocBook XML is accessible to use, especially for those who have a grasp of HTML already.
	www.linuxjournal.com /article.php?sid=7740 (3015 words)

	DocBook
		DocBook is a very popular XML (and SGML) vocabulary for writing technical documentation (among other things).
		With the creation of the DocBook project at SourceForge, many of the resources that used to be on this site are now elsewhere.
		The DocBook Open Repository at SourceForge, the open source home for the DocBook XSL and DSSSL Stylesheets and a number of derived doctypes.
	nwalsh.com /docbook (113 words)

	redhat.com \| Introduction to DocBook XML
		DocBook is a markup language originally created using SGML and designed for technical documentation.
		For all DocBook's flexibility and ease of creation, most users are not interested in visually parsing the XML source.
		The DocBook DTD doesn't declare, for example, how large headings should be, which text should be italicized, or what page margins should be.
	www.redhat.com /magazine/016feb06/features/docbook_xml (2105 words)

	oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: DocBook: The Definitive Guide
		DocBook is a Document Type Definition (DTD) for use with XML (the Extensible Markup Language) and SGML (the Standard Generalized Markup Language).
		DocBook: The Definitive Guide is the complete and official documentation of the DocBook Document Type Definition (DTD) and many of its associated tools.
		DocBook is a system for writing structured documents using SGML and XML.
	www.oreilly.com /catalog/docbook (650 words)

	xml:
		The current issues and enhancements filed for DocBook are these.
		This method of enabling the DocBook filters is more convenient, but it does not guarantee that the most recent stylesheets and OpenOffice.org template are used.
		Initially the DocBook project used OpenOffice.org sections to enforce the nesting of DocBook sections.
	xml.openoffice.org /xmerge/docbook (979 words)

	Quanta as a Docbook Editor
		While the KDE documentation team gladly accepts contributions in plain text, the format used for writing the applications manuals is called docbook.
		Docbook is a format based on tags, which describe the format and specifications of the document.
		If you want to learn about docbook, or don't know how to start, the KDE Documentation Primer was created to guide new writers, and offers information such as what to write about, English usage guidelines, how to get the documentation sources, a docbook introduction, a docbook reference guide and more.
	quanta.kdewebdev.org /tutorials/quanta-docbook/quanta.html (872 words)

	xmlhack: Scrapping DocBook
		In the first article, he gives his recollections about how the DocBook SGML/XML vocabulary has developed over the 10+ years since DocBook 1.0 was released (10 November 1992), explicitly pointing out a few problems that have developed as a result (and seeming to imply a few others):
		In past mailing-list discussions of simplifying DocBook, some users have suggested fairly extensive refactorings -- along the lines of modularizing DocBook into a core set of general-use elements, with separate pluggable modules holding groups of elements for specific kinds of specialized content (e.g., a "math elements" module, a "computer hardware/software elements" module).
		The prototype amounts to more of "streamlined" or "cleaned-up" version of the current element set; it still weighs in at 300+ elements, with most of the attribute values on those elements being the same as what they are currently.
	xmlhack.com /read.php?item=1990 (516 words)

	DocBook tools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For those curious about DocBook, it is an SGML (or XML) DTD for writing technical manuals that cover hardware or software.
		You may also want to look at the DocBook home page for further information.
		Docbook-Tools is maintained by Mark Galassi; the packaging was initially done by Mark Eichin; the individual programs (most of the work!) are written by the respective authors (James Clark, Norman Walsh, Sebastian Rahtz, others...).
	sources.redhat.com /docbook-tools (364 words)

	DocBook Editor
		The articles from our site are written using DocBook and their sources are available for download.
		DocBook documents can be converted to HTML, PDF or PostScript and supports intelligent XML editing, validation, content completion.
		A new module file was added in the DocBook DTD distribution adding XInclude support to the DocBook DTD.
	www.oxygenxml.com /docbook_editor.html (317 words)

	DocBook - MoinMoin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		DocBook is a markup language used to create and maintain documentation that can be as simple as an article or a chapter, or as big as a complete book or a set of books.
		DocBook documents are processed to generate other outputs (HTML, XHTML, RTF, PDF, plain text, etc.) and works with other "sister" XML technologies like XSLT (for transformations), XPath, XPointer and XQuery.
		It is different from DocBookWiki (http://doc-book.sourceforge.net/homepage/), which is written in PHP and support Docbook as its native format.
	moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de /DocBook (208 words)

	EServer TC Library: DocBook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		DocBook is an XML vocabulary that is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software.
		DocBook is officially available as a [WWW] Document Type Definition (DTD) for both XML and SGML.
		These are XSL stylesheets for the DocBook DTD and its derivatives (Simplified DocBook, etc.) to generate PDF/print documents or Web/HTML content.
	tc.eserver.org /dir/DocBook (309 words)

	Exploring SGML DocBook
		Docbook is a DTD purposely designed (and widely used) in order to create articles, books, and other technical works, but that does not exclude that it cannot be used for other document types.
		Docbook document creation process is substantially different from the simple editing with a wordprocessor, because document's structure is partially independent from its representation.
		Now that you know what Docbook is, I will show you how to setup DocBook tools, needed for processing our documents, before creating our first document.
	lwn.net /2000/features/DocBook (1955 words)

	XML.com: Mastering DocBook Indexes
		These days DocBook is considered to be a standard documentation format.
		DocBook succeeded because it is supported by plenty of tools, many of them free.
		Freely available DocBook XSL stylesheets allow conversion from DocBook to a variety of output formats including HTML, XHTML, print (PDF, PostScript), HTML Help, and JavaHelp.
	www.xml.com /pub/a/2004/07/14/dbndx.html (653 words)

	DocBook Technical Committee Document Repository
		The DocBook Technical Committee maintains the DocBook schema.
		DocBook is an XML/SGML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).
		The OASIS DocBook SubCommittee for Publishers is chartered to develop and maintain official variants of DocBook in support of the publishing industry.
	www.oasis-open.org /docbook (173 words)

	DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide
		A PDF version of this document is available for purchase from Sagehill Enterprises.
		The author of this book is available for helping with DocBook or other XML publishing projects.
		DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide - 3rd Edition
	www.sagehill.net /docbookxsl (55 words)

	Docbook Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a collation of some Frequently Asked questions regarding Docbook.
		The initial focus will be on the XML version of the DTD, and the XSLT based stylesheets.
		Input in docbook XML please, within elements please.
	www.dpawson.co.uk /docbook (115 words)

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