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.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| DocBook canonical | 2 |
| DocBook 4.x | 1 |
| DocBook Technical Committee | 1 |
| GNU documentation | 1 |
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
XML vocabulary
ⓘ
documentation format ⓘ semantic markup language ⓘ |
| basedOn | SGML ⓘ |
| commonlyUsedAs | XML ⓘ |
| designedFor |
authoring books
ⓘ
authoring technical documentation ⓘ publishing books ⓘ publishing technical documentation ⓘ |
| earlierVersionSyntax | DTD-based ⓘ |
| governedBy |
DocBook
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
DocBook Technical Committee
|
| 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 ⓘ |
| hasSchemaLanguage |
DTD
ⓘ
RELAX NG ⓘ XML Schema ⓘ
surface form:
W3C XML Schema
|
| hasTooling |
XSLT stylesheets for formatting
ⓘ
command-line processing tools ⓘ editor plugins and IDE support ⓘ |
| hasVersion |
DocBook
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
DocBook 4.x
DocBook 5.x ⓘ |
| laterVersionSyntax | RELAX NG-based ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
DITA
ⓘ
HTML ⓘ LaTeX ⓘ TEI ⓘ |
| standardizedBy | OASIS ⓘ |
| supports |
multi-format output
ⓘ
single-source publishing ⓘ |
| supportsOutputFormat |
EPUB
ⓘ
FO ⓘ HTML ⓘ HTML Help ⓘ PDF ⓘ PostScript ⓘ Rich Text Format ⓘ
surface form:
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 (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
GNU documentation
this entity surface form:
DocBook Technical Committee
this entity surface form:
DocBook 4.x