Directory of DocBook Resources

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DocBook provides a system for writing structured documents using SGML or XML. It is particularly well-suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software, though it is by no means limited to them. In short, DocBook is an easy-to-understand and widely used DTD. Dozens of organizations use DocBook for millions of pages of documentation, in various print and online formats, worldwide.

Resources in This Category

• DocBook Demystification HOWTO

  http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Demystification-HOWTO/
  Information on the markup system and the tools required. Primarily aimed at authors of technical documentation. Written by Eric Raymond.

• DocBook Filters

  http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/
  Read and write docbook xml using OpenOffice.org.

• DocBook Technical Committee Document Repository

  http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/
  Specifications, XML DTDs and schemas, SGML DTDs, RELAX NG Grammars, W3C XML Schema Grammars.

• DocBook.org

  http://www.docbook.org/
  Official home page for DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide, the official documentation for DocBook.

• DocBook: The Definitive Guide

  http://docbook.org/tdg/
  Online companion site of this O'Reilly publication and partial mirror site of OASIS site for DocBook.

• Get Going with DocBook

  http://www.galassi.org/mark/mydocs/docbook-intro/docbook-intro.html
  Mark Galassi's readable introduction.

• Getting Started With DocBook on OpenOffice

  http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/UserGuide.html
  It does not cover all of the functionality that is currently supported by the DocBook filter, but instead covers a few of the more frequently used operations that are necessary to commence using OpenOffice.org to edit and create DocBook files.

• The DocBook Project

  http://docbook.sourceforge.net/
  Open-source DocBook resources, including the DocBook XSL stylesheets. Lot of technical information in a Wiki.

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