docbook: What are the top-level types of Docbook documents ?
Subject:
Re: What are the top-level types of Docbook documents ?
From:
Hal Burgiss ####@####.####
Date:
14 Sep 2002 00:52:38 -0000
Message-Id: <20020913205236.K3635@feenix.burgiss.net>
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:14:57PM -0700, Ol' Dirty Chinaman wrote:
> Is 'article' a top level type ? or does 'article' have to be nested
> within a book declaration.
No, you would declare one or the other.
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" [
[...]
> Also, for a HOWTO, what is preferred ? I assume for longer and
> lengthier ones its definately 'book', for HOWTO's do you prefer
> 'article' or 'book' or just don't really care either way ?
'article' probably best fits a HOWTO. I think if you looked at source
for most (all?) HOWTO's, they'd be 'articles'. Book might be more
fitting for a 'Guide', where you are more likely to have 'chapter'
type subdivisions of the document. Though conceivably you could get
very similar looking finished docs with either, depending on
stylesheets, markup, etc.
--
Hal Burgiss
