Hello Tim, On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am a clueless newbie. Please point me at a FAQ > if I am asking a totally scruffy question.
Not scruffy questions but FAQ follows :-) [DocBook: The Definitive Guide] (reference book with introductions) http://www.docbook.org/tdg/index.html [DocBook FAQ] (absolutely recommended IMO) http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/index.html > I am writing an HTML textbook, want to teach XML > in one chapter, found DocBook and think it would be > a far, far better thing to teach than teaching XML. > (Yes, I have compassion for the student/readers.) I don't know if I can follow you there. XML is a meta language for specifying markup languages. DocBook(-XML) is an application of XML, i.e. an allready specified markup language. IMHO, to make use of DocBook-XML (or even the SGML version) it's of great use--if not necessary--to know XML allready because XML forms the basis. With respect, why would you want to teach DocBook instead of XML? > on a Windoz box? Yes, I know, evil empire > and all that. I have Unix boxes I can ssh to > and install it, but having it at home on Windoz > would be a Good Thing, so I could so advise > my student/readers. Fortunately OS is of no such great importance. I personally use WinNT quite often for marking up and transforming my webpages in website-XML (a DocBook-customization) and other DocBook sources because I maintained the necessary environment there better than under Linux. Also the tools used most often are available both for Unix as well as Win32 (GNU-Emacs, (open)jade/sp, all java stuff anyways). HTH, Steffen. -- http://w3studi.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~maiersn/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
