This howto attempts to clear the fog and mystery surrounding the DocBook markup system and the tools that go with it. It is aimed at authors of technical documentation for open-source projects hosted on Linux, but should be useful for people composing other kinds on other Unixes as well.
Raymond, Eric S. tldp.org. Articles>Documentation>XML>DocBook
Having new DocBook standards in place may do little to push adoption. An important factor in driving user adoption is the availability of software that implements the standard. It would be interesting to see whether big software companies would jump on the bandwagon...Unless the open-source community comes to the rescue!
Talbot, Fabrice. LiveTechDocs (2008). Articles>Documentation>XML>DocBook
Getting Started with the DocBook XML Dialect
Gets you started with DocBook, an SGML/XML dialect that describes the content of technical articles and other documents. David discusses the benefits of using DocBook, and then describes how to plan and modularize a large document conversion project.
Mertz, David. IBM (2000). Articles>Documentation>XML>DocBook
What a Technical Writer Should Know About DocBook?
DocBook is a set of tools for implementing XML (Extended Markup Language)-based structured documentation. It is developed back in 1991 and is widely used today by those technical writers who generate single-sourced documentation. It is especially well suited for software, hardware and networking documentation.
Technical Communication Center (2009). Articles>Documentation>XML>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
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