DocBook
Sign in to saveDocBook is a semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of documentation.
Key facts
- File format.open
- Yes
- File format.name
- DocBook
- File format.extension
- .dbk, .xml
- File format.mime
- application/docbook+xml
- File format.owner
- OASIS
- File format.genre
- markup language
- File format.extended from
- SGML, XML
- File format.standard
- 5.2 (February 2024),4.5 (October 2006)
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Official website
DocBook Technical Committee Document Repository
oasis-open.org →Link to the official site · 2,550 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.oasis-open.org/docbook
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- media type
- application/docbook+xml
- file extension
- xml
- software version identifier
- 5.1
Sources (2)
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13 sectionsContents
- Design
- Sample document
- Schemas and validation
- Authoring and processing
- History
- Pre DocBook v5.0
- Output formats
- Simplified DocBook
- Criticism
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
DocBook is a semantic markup language for technical documentation. It was originally intended for writing technical documents related to computer hardware and software, but it can be used for any other sort of documentation.
As a semantic language, DocBook enables its users to create document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure of the content; that content can then be published in a variety of formats, including HTML, XHTML, EPUB, PDF, man pages, WebHelp and HTML Help, without requiring users to make any changes to the source. In other words, when a document is written in DocBook format it becomes easily portable into other formats, rather than needing to be rewritten.