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.


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 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
W3C XML Schema
hasTooling XSLT stylesheets for formatting
command-line processing tools
editor plugins and IDE support
hasVersion 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
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
DocBook ("DocBook Technical Committee")
governedBy
DocBook ("DocBook 4.x")
hasVersion
SGML
influenced
The GNU Manifesto ("GNU documentation")
partOf

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