Docbook

Figure 699. What is Docbook? Slide presentation

  • Focus on technical documentation

  • Excellent authoring user interface

  • Semantic markup language

    • XML based

Figure 700. Authoring and publishing Slide presentation
Authoring and publishing

Figure 701. Document representation Slide presentation 
<section version="5.1"
  xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
  ...>

  <title>A Title</title>

  <para>A paragraph</para>
</section>

Figure 702. Software centric schema Slide presentation

Software specific support:

Software centric schema

Figure 703. Document targets Slide presentation
Document targets

Figure 704. Docbook components Slide presentation

  • Target format generators

    • XSL style sheets targeting HTML and FO

    • CSS and JavaScript for generated HTML


Figure 705. Target format overview Slide presentation

  • PDF

  • Epub(3)

  • Slides

  • ...

Figure 706. Tooling / Software Slide presentation
Editing / office
Editing / programming

emacs, vi, notepad, XML IDE, ...
XSLT processors

Saxon 6.5.5, Xalan, ...

FO (PDF) processors

Figure 707. Different schema languages Slide presentation
Docbook 5.x

Based on RelaxNG grammar

Docbook 4.x (old / outdated)

Based on DTD grammar


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