Why Read This Book?

Organization of This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Safari® Books Online

Acknowledgments

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1 TokenChapter 1. Getting Started with DocBook

A Short DocBook History

The HaL and O'Reilly Era

The Davenport Era

DocBook V5.0

What's New in DocBook V5.0?

Renamed and removed elements

Linking and cross-referencing

Uniform info elements

Constraint definitions using Schematron

Relaxing with DocBook

Why Switch to DocBook V5.0?

Schema Jungle

Where to Get the Schemas

Backward Compatibility

Chapter 2. Creating DocBook Documents

Making an XML Document

An XML Declaration

An Internal Subset

Physical Divisions: Breaking a Document into Separate Files

Logical Divisions: The Categories of Elements in DocBook

Components

Meta-Information

Block Elements

Block versus inline elements

Line-specific environments

Paragraphs

Questions and answers

Miscellaneous block elements

Inline Elements

Traditional publishing inlines

Markup

User interfaces

Programming languages and constructs

Operating systems

Roots: Starting Your DocBook Document

Making a Chapter

Making a Reference Page

Making Front and Back Matter

Making an Index

Marking index terms

Printing an index

Making a Glossary

Making a Bibliography

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A Survey of Stylesheet Languages

Stylesheet Examples

XSL stylesheet

XQuery

Using XSL to Publish DocBook Documents

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Should You Do This?

If You Change DocBook, It's Not DocBook Anymore!

Namespace and Version

Customization Layers

DocBook Schema Structure

The General Structure of Customization Layers

Writing, Testing, and Using a Customization Layer

Deciding How to Change a Customization Layer

Removing Elements

Removing Computer Inlines

Removing Sectioning Elements

Removing Admonitions from Table Entries

Removing Attributes

Subsetting the Common Attributes

Adding Elements

Adding Attributes

Other Modifications

Adding a Value to an Enumerated Attribute

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Appendix A. Installation

Installing DocBook

Installing the DocBook Schemas

XML Catalogs and DocBook

Installing and setting up the DocBook XML catalog

Getting the ISO entity sets

Installing the DocBook Stylesheets

Appendix B. DocBook Variants and Future Directions

DocBook Variants

Future Directions

DocBook Assembly Mechanism

Appendix C. Resources

DocBook and XML Resources on the Web

Introductory Material on the Web

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Recommendations

Internet RFCs

Books and Printed Resources

XML Tools

Appendix D. Interchanging DocBook Documents

Appendix E. GNU Free Documentation License