DocBook
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DocBook is a semantic markup language, originally based on SGML and now commonly used in XML form, designed for authoring and publishing technical documentation and books in a platform-independent way.
Aliases (3)
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
XML vocabulary
→
documentation format → semantic markup language → |
| basedOn |
SGML
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| commonlyUsedAs |
XML
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| designedFor |
authoring books
→
authoring technical documentation → publishing books → publishing technical documentation → |
| earlierVersionSyntax |
DTD-based
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| governedBy |
DocBook Technical Committee
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| hasDesignGoal |
device independence
→
platform independence → separation of content and presentation → |
| hasFeature |
modular document structure
→
reuse of content via entities or inclusions → rich set of elements for technical documentation → support for articles → support for bibliographies → support for books → support for code listings → support for cross references → support for equations → support for figures → support for glossaries → support for indexes → support for procedures → support for reference pages → support for tables → |
| hasLicense |
open standard
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| hasSchemaLanguage |
DTD
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RELAX NG → W3C XML Schema → |
| hasTooling |
XSLT stylesheets for formatting
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command-line processing tools → editor plugins and IDE support → |
| hasVersion |
DocBook 4.x
→
DocBook 5.x → |
| laterVersionSyntax |
RELAX NG-based
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| relatedTo |
DITA
→
HTML → LaTeX → TEI → |
| standardizedBy |
OASIS
→
|
| supports |
multi-format output
→
single-source publishing → |
| supportsOutputFormat |
EPUB
→
FO → HTML → HTML Help → PDF → PostScript → RTF → XHTML → man pages → |
| usedIn |
enterprise documentation workflows
→
open source documentation projects → software documentation → technical publishing → |
| uses |
XML elements to represent document structure
→
semantic tags instead of presentational tags → |
Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
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DocBook
("DocBook Technical Committee")
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governedBy |
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DocBook
("DocBook 4.x")
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hasVersion |
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SGML
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influenced |
|
The GNU Manifesto
("GNU documentation")
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partOf |