In case anybody wants to experiment with DocBook 5 (or other) XML
technical writing/editing, some free software is available:
(1) XMLmind XML Editor Personal Edition
<http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/download.shtml> is a very powerful
authoring tool which has all the features needed to edit any XML
document, whether conforming to a standard schema (DocBook, DITA, XHTML,
etc) or to a proprietary one.
You'll like this Personal Edition has no restrictions in terms of
schema. DTD, W3C XML Schema, RELAX NG schema and Schematron are all
fully supported.
See features for a thorough description of XMLmind XML Editor Personal
Edition.
Personal Edition can be freely downloaded.
(2) XMLmind XSL-FO Converter Personal Edition
<http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/downloadperso.shtml> was designed
with two goals in mind:
* To make evaluation of the conversion engine easier.
* To provide a convenience for XML content authors who need to
import their documents in Microsoft® Word or OpenOffice Writer.
Personal Edition only provides stand-alone applications. Both the
Java^TM and .NET versions provide four command-line executables (fo2rtf,
fo2wml, fo2docx and fo2odt), and the Java version offers a graphical
user interface (XSL Utility
<http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/xslutility.html>) as well.
Personal Edition may be freely used by natural persons /for their
personal activities/. Except in a few special cases it may not be used
for professional activities. (See XMLmind XSL-FO Converter Personal
Edition License <http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/license_pe.html> for
conditions of use.)
Personal Edition is available for download
<http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/downloadperso.shtml> at no charge.
I plan to use DocBook 5 with the Writer Guide chapters, using the above
software packages. In case any others are interested, let me know and we
can compare notes.
Gary
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Gary Schnabl
2775 Honorah
Detroit MI 48209
(734) 245-3324
