Producing Documentation and Reusing Information in XML, Part 1: Document Publishing Using XML

XML provides a way to identify data items and subcomponents within any structured data set, but has its roots in documentation development and production. Robust, open standards for XML document markup and a rich set of freely available tools for XML document parsing and format conversion make it easy to install and configure a complete documentation development and formatting environment on any UNIX® or Linux® system.

von Hagen, William. IBM (2009). Articles>Content Management>Documentation>DocBook

Producing Documentation and Reusing Information in XML, Part 2: Reuse Information in XML Documentation

Discover simple solutions to reuse information in XML documentation, such as how to use XInclude to include other documents at a given point in a document and how to use XPointer to include small document fragments from other documents or a similar pool of information in XML format. Also, get tips for structuring XML documentation to simplify information reuse, and learn how to maintain stand-alone documents that you can incorporate into larger documents.

von Hagen, William. IBM (2009). Articles>Content Management>Documentation>DocBook

Producing Documentation and Reusing Information in XML, Part 3: Creating Multi-Target XML Documents

XML is an optimal format for writing documentation that you can use with many different documentation software packages and production environments. In this third article in the series, discover how to create single-source documents that can produce output in a variety of different output formats.

von Hagen, William. IBM (2009). Articles>Documentation>XML>DocBook