DocBook is good for "real" books where you want to/have to produce a PDF, thanks to the DocBook-XSL stylesheet package. How do you produce PDF from HTML5 source?
DocBook is good if you can live within its schema. I store all kinds of metadata in its attributes and haven't felt limited yet. There is a fairly strong movement against modifying the schema, though I guess that's better than HTML5 where you have no choice at all for elements and very little choice (except at your own risk) for attributes. The DocBook community is obviously much smaller than the HTML[5] community, and composed primarily of writers rather than developers. I get the feeling that most writers use a toolchain which significantly insulates them from DocBook. I edit in emacs, which isn't so unusual in web-world, but is definitely unusual in DocBook-land. Overall I think DocBook is a worthy industrial alternative to LaTeX, but I have a feeling that most people will find DocBook too "corporate" and will instead be satisfied with [X]HTML5. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
