DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide

This Book’s Audience

We expect that most readers will have some familiarity with XML. Even if your experience goes no further than writing a few HTML pages, you’re probably in good shape. If you’re not already familiar with XML, there are many popular books, including Erik Ray’s Learning XML [Ray03]. For a list of other resources, consult Appendix C.

Note

The previous edition of this book described some of the SGML-specific features available to users of the DocBook DTD versions 4.x and earlier. In this edition, we don’t cover SGML at all. Starting with DocBook V5.0, DocBook is normatively an XML vocabulary.