DocBook

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Definition

DocBook is a document standard popular for writing large documentation. It is also used in education.

Links

• DocBook (XML Version). Docbook is one of the most popular DTD's for writing books and papers (designed for informatics but used by other authors). There also is a simple version and a slidesdoctpye made by N.Walsh (fully compatible)
• http://docbook.sourceforge.net/ Docbook Open repository. Has several interesting stylesheets (including the known ones from N.Walsh)
• Writing Documentation Using DocBook Crash Course for using the KDE DocBook Tools. The tools themselves are at redhat.
• See e.g. XML Matters article by David Mertz for getting started with docbook.
• DocBook: The Definitive Guide ON-LINE O'Reilly book, nice on paper too.
• RefDB, RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for DocBook SGML/XML documents. It allows users to share databases over a network. Finally something like this is emerging :) 6/2001
• Profiling DocBook documents article by Jirka Kosek
• DocBook Wiki, founded by N. Walsh
• JReferences, is a tool to store and retrieve bibliographic references from a file or MySQL database. It reads BibTeXML, DocBook XML and RIS type references, and can output these and BibTex. A bibtex like alternative is also provided for DocBook. See BibTexML for details about the BibTexML standard and other tools