What is DocBook used for?

DocBook is a semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of documentation.

What is DocBook schema?

DocBook is a schema (available in several languages including RELAX NG, SGML and XML DTDs, and W3C XML Schema) maintained by the DocBook Technical Committee of OASIS. It is particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).

How do I read a DocBook?

A DocBook article or chapter document can now be opened using the File -> Open dialog.

1. Go to File -> Open…
2. Browse to the DocBook document.
3. Click OK.

Is SGML a markup language?

The Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML, defined in [ISO8879]), is a language for defining markup languages. The document type definition (DTD). The DTD defines the syntax of markup constructs.

How do you explain DITA?

What is DITA?

1. Enable interchange and interoperation of XML content from a wide variety of sources without requiring everyone involved to agree on a single overarching document type definition.
2. Enable reuse of content among different publications and within the same publication.

What is a DITA concept?

DITA includes three main topic types: Task, Concept, and Reference. Tasks are used to describe how to perform a procedure. Concepts present descriptive information so the reader can understand the background and context of a subject. Reference topics provide detailed facts, often in a table.

Why is XML important?

XML allows the flexible development of user-defined document types. It provides a robust, non-proprietary, persistent, and verifiable file format for the storage and transmission of text and data both on and off the Web; and it removes the more complex options of SGML, making it easier to program for.

What does the XML specification mean for DocBook?

In the words of the XML specification, “the goal [of XML] is to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web in the way that is now possible with HTML .” XML raises two issues with respect to DocBook:

Are All DocBook documents well-formed XML documents?

Most DocBook documents can be made into well-formed XML documents very easily. With few exceptions, valid DocBook SGML instances are also well-formed XML instances. The following areas may need to be addressed. It is common for SGML instances to use only a public identifier in document type and parameter entity declarations:

Can the DocBook DTD be made into a valid XML DTD?

Can the DocBook DTD be made into a valid XML DTD? If you have an existing SGML system, and your primary goal is to serve DocBook documents over the Web as XML, only the first of these issues is relevant. As the popularity of XML grows, we will see more and more XML -aware tools that don’t implement full ISO 8879 SGML.

How do I validate an XML document (DocBook)?

Appropriate programming tools can validate an XML document (DocBook or otherwise), against its corresponding schema, to determine if (and where) the document fails to conform to that schema. XML editing tools can also use schema information to avoid creating non-conforming documents in the first place.