Guides.DocBook: an XML application

Guides.DocBook: The Definitive Guide
The online version of the book by Norman Walsh and Leonard Muellner, published by O'Reilly. The text represents the official documentation for Guides.DocBook.

Guides.DocBook Install mini-HOWTO
by Robert B. Easter.

Writing Documentation Using Guides.DocBook: A Crash Course
by David Rugge et al.

The Modular Guides.DocBook Stylesheets
by Norman Walsh.

Guides.DocBook Technical Committee
The official site at OASIS.

xml-doc
"xml-doc is a mailing list where writers, developers, product and service vendors, and others discuss the application of XML, SGML, and related technologies to structured authoring, particularly authoring of documentation for computer software and hardware."

We have a separate page for Document Format Conversion links.

Guides.DocBook Installation Requirements

Detailed information in Easter and Walsh above. Not all of the following packages are needed:

The OpenJade Distribution Page
OpenJade is a project undertaken by the DSSSL community to maintain and extend Jade, James Clark's implementation of DSSSL.

JadeTeX
"This is a TeX macro package for processing the output from Jade/OpenJade in TeX (-t) mode."

Guides.DocBook SGML DTD
"The Guides.DocBook Document Type expressed in SGML".

ISO8879 ENTITY SGML
"Representations for special or untypeable symbols or characters, including mathematical symbols". Two files are needed:

http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/ISOEnts.zip
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/isoENT-tar.gz

Robert Easter has combined both of above at: http://reaster.com/iso8879-entities.tar.gz

SGMLtools-Lite
Python interface to SGML software in a Guides.DocBook/OpenJade environment.

Guides.DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets
"These are DSSSL stylesheets for the Guides.DocBook DTD (they are also completely compatible with the Guides.DocBook XML DTD and the Simplified Guides.DocBook DTD)".

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