Chasing Documentation's Holy Grail

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Agenda

Introduction

Chasing the Holy Grail

What is DocBook?

DocBook History

Who uses DocBook?

DocBook Strengths

DocBook Weaknesses

Examples

Example - Book

Example - Article

Sections

Sections - continued

List - Itemized

List - Ordered

List - Variable

Image - Simple

Image - Complex

Tables

Figures and Examples

Admonitions

Character Formatting

Verbatim Text

Links

Indexing

Miscellaneous

Example - Q&A

Example - Reference Page

Stylesheets

Standard stylesheets

XSL Stylesheets - Output

DSSL Stylesheets - Output

Customization Layers

Example - Generating HTML

Example - Generating PDF

Tools

Editing

Validation

HTML - Saxon

HTML - Xalan

HTML - libxslt

Print - FOP

Print - PassiveTeX

SGML Tools

SGML Tools, cont'd

Commercial Tools

Other Tools

Automation

Version Control

Extensions

Slides Doctype

Website Doctype

Conclusion

So have we reached the Holy Grail?

Resources

Resources, cont'd

Questions?