DocBook. org This is the official home page for DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide The definitive guide is the official documentation for DocBook The latest edition covers DocBook V5 0 It was published by O'Reilly Media and XML Press In support of DocBook users everywhere, this book and its source XML are available online Of course, you're always free to
What is DocBook? What is DocBook? DocBook is a schema (available in several languages including RELAX NG, SGML and XML DTDs, and W3C XML Schema) maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications)
DocBook: The Definitive Guide DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide There are different versions of the book The most recent versions (for 5 1 and 5 2, at the time of this writing) are evolving (slowly) and get updated automatically
Creating DocBook Documents This chapter explains in concrete, practical terms how to make DocBook documents It’s an overview of all the kinds of markup that are possible in DocBook documents It explains how to create several kinds of DocBook documents: books, sets of books, chapters, articles, and reference manual entries
DocBook 5. 1: The Definitive Guide Preface to the DocBook V5 1 Edition 1 Summary of Changes in DocBook V5 1 1 1 Backwards incompatible changes planned for DocBook V6 0; 2 About the formatting… Preface 1 Why Read This Book? 2 This Book's Audience; 3 Organization of This Book; 4 Conventions Used in This Book; 5 Using Code Examples; 6 Safari® Books Online; 7 How to
DocBook V5. x DocBook V5 x The version 5 0 release is a complete rewrite of DocBook in RELAX NG The intent of this rewrite is to produce a schema that is true to the spirit of DocBook while simultaneously removing inconsistencies that have arisen as a natural consequence of DocBook's long, slow evolution
Chapter 1. Getting Started with DocBook Getting Started with DocBook This chapter provides an overview of DocBook, starting with its history It includes a description of DocBook V5 0 and the changes from DocBook V4 x to V5 0 1 A Short DocBook History DocBook is almost thirty years old
DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide This is the online edition of the DocBook V5 0 book References to V5 1 elements and features have been removed There is a separate online guide for DocBook V5 1
Simplified DocBook: The Definitive Guide Getting Started with “Simplified DocBook” Part II Reference I DocBook Element Reference abbrev — An abbreviation, especially one followed by a period; abstract — A summary; acronym — An often pronounceable word made from the initial (or selected) letters of a name or phrase; affiliation — The institutional affiliation of an