![]() ![]() ![]() After introduction of XML as de-facto standard for semistructured data (W3C spec.Docbook since beginning of 90s (1991), as a SGML markup that time.to HTML, via LaTeX or XSL:FO to PDF, but also PostScript, PDF, RTF, DVI and plain-ASCII.), or documentation/help formats (HTML Help, Microsoft CHM, man-pages) – selected parts or elements can be extracted separately (take the intro chapter, generate the book ToC.) or connect more texts into one Easy processing: – visualization (using CSS, using XSLT for transf.Text is created using semantic elements for: – big text blocks (book, paper, chapter, section, paragraph, screen.) – smaller in-line parts (emphasized, link, product name, command.) – multimedia elements (images, videos, sounds.) – helper elements and metadata (title, authoring, date of creation, copyright, index items, ToC.) visual representation is not of importance when writing the source. In principle, DB is a logical (semantic) markup (i.e.Originally as a tool to cope with large UNIX-systems documentation.Docbook is a XML (and SGML) markup for writing documents, namely of technical nature (computer/software manuals, technical documentation).there is the TDG (DocBook: The Definitive Guide) - also as Windows Help (/~tomp/xml/tdg-en-2.0.7.chm). ![]() probably the biggest markup for technical documentation ever.details, DTD, help, software, styles, see ( org).authored by Norman Walsh (formerly Sun Microsystems Inc.).now many other purposes - writing papers (article), books (book), chapters (chapter), sections (section, sectX).big project, one complex markup for all programmmers documentation.DocBook as an example of a more complex markup ![]()
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