= Some Information About DocBook INTRODUCTION DocBook is an SGML and XML dtd (and schema as well) for writing technical documents (about computer software etc) INFORMATION http://docbook.org/ The DocBook home http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ The official home for the DocBook DTD http://www.nwalsh.com/docbook/ Norman walsh's site. The man who has written many DTD's etc. This site doesn't seem to contain a great deal of content. http://docbook.sourceforge.net/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook The sourceforge Docbook home (pages). DOCUMENTATION http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/documentation/reference/html/docbook.html The O'reilly book about docBook (written by norman walsh) http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html This is a more recent version of the above. This is probably the best initial place to go for information about docbook. The book is comprehensive, well written and well proof-read (which is a pleasant change from the usual Internet rubbish) http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ An FAQ for docbook http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/ This wiki does contain some worthwhile information but its pretty disorganised. This is the 'wiki' for docbook. A wiki is a set of webpages which can be edited by anybody. This is basically a dubious idea and makes the pages pretty difficult to read because they are being edited in all sorts of anarchic ways. This wiki is probably the central documentation site for 'DocBook' For more information on 'wikis' and other similar systems please see http://www.ella-associates.org/alexis-info/docs/web-collaboration-review.html DOCBOOK AND XSL STYLESHEETS http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/ A resonably comprehensive looking document about how to use the Norman Walsh style sheets http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/ The parameter reference for the XSL html style sheets. Parameters are used to customize the output of the XSL transformation http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/ The paramter reference for the FO output. FO is used to create pdf format output amongst other things. DOCBOOK AND CSS STYLESHEETS http://www.docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DocBookCssStylesheets This is a page in the Docbook wiki which deals with CSS for XML directly http://www.xmlmind.org/ This application contains a good CSS style sheet for docbook, but you have to download the whole application MISCELANEOUS http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200105/msg00924.html This is a newsgroup entry by a very knowledgable and thorough respondent about entities and european accented characters in XML