On 1/11/06, Brent Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm starting to get out of my depth here, so what I > > say next could be total rubbish. :) > > What I have gathered from looking up DocBook specs and > > tutorials is that is *used* to be that, but has since > > been rewritten in terms of XML. > > > > This is correct. SGML is a different set of rules than > XML, although it is very similar. For example in SGML > you can end a tag with <tag></>, where in XML this is > illegal.. > > Also, docbook SGML used to be converted to PDF or HTML > using jade, which uses DSSSL stylesheets. Nowadays we > use docbook XML and convert to HTML via XSL stylesheets > and to PDF through XSL-FO. >
This still does not change the fact that DocBook does provide something in addition to general XML syntax - namely, it provides DocBook XML DTD and some entities, used by all DocBokk XML files (in particular, by all GNOME documentation). _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
