discuss: anybody here used DocBook 5.0?
Subject:
anybody here used DocBook 5.0?
From:
"Martin A. Brown" ####@####.####
Date:
9 Feb 2016 17:07:59 +0000
Message-Id: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1602090901440.2025@znpeba.jbaqresebt.arg>
Hello all,
Has anybody here used DocBook 5.0 yet? I have not.
I have skimmed through parts of the DocBook 5.0 transition guide:
http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/
My observations:
* The namespace bits seem powerful and one of the big reasons
anybody would choose DocBook 5.0. My lay understanding is that
this allows multiple XML vocabularies to be used intermixed in
a single document.
* The toolchain looks largely the same as the xsltproc + XSL
toolchain that I've grown accustomed to using with DocBook XML.
* I saw xlink:href elements in some DocBook 4.x documents in our
collection and wondered why somebody had used that notation.
Now, I know. This would be a valid declaration for a DocBook
5.0 document in which somebody wanted to included links to,
let's say, other websites:
<article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
Anyway, I'm asking if anybody else has used DocBook 5.0 and would
share any (other) tips, pointers, Makefiles, CLI invocations or such
jazz.
-Martin
P.S. Yes, I'm also lurking on the public docbook and docbook-apps
mailing lists where the DocBook standard and some of the
toolchains are discussed. Hoping to osmotically absorb some
knowledge there.
--
Martin A. Brown
http://linux-ip.net/
