User's Guide for the DocBook DTD

Eve Maler

ArborText, Inc.

Terry Allen

Fujitsu Software Corporation

Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute the DocBook DTD and its accompanying documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted in perpetutity, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies.

The copyright holders make no representation about the suitability of this DTD for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without expressed or implied warranty. If you modify the DocBook DTD in any way, except for declaring and referencing additional general entities and declaring additional notations, identify your DTD as a variant of DocBook.

Please direct all questions, bug reports, or suggestions for changes to the davenport@online.ora.com mailing list or to one of the maintainers:

Terry Allen
Fujitsu Software Corporation
3055 Orchard Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com

Eve Maler
ArborText, Inc.
105 Lexington St.
Burlington, MA 01803
elm@arbortext.com

norm; See http://www.ora.com/davenport/ or ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/ for more information.


Table of Contents
Preface
Obtaining DocBook from the Davenport Archive
Using and Modifying This Guide
Sending Comments
Acknowledgments
1. Document Hierarchies
Sets and Books
Sets and Books
Book Components
General-Purpose Sections
Reference Entries
Articles
Document Navigational Information
Tables of Contents and Lists of Titles
Index and SetIndex
Bibliography
Glossary
2. Object Content in Documents
Terms and Concepts
Paragraphs and Text Blocks
Paragraphs
Abstract and Highlights
AuthorBlurb
BlockQuote and Epigraph
Admonitions and Sidebars
Lists, MsgSets, and Procedures
ItemizedList
OrderedList
CalloutList
SimpleList
VariableList
GlossList
SegmentedList
Procedure
MsgSet
Callout Structures
Computer Examples
Formal and Informal Examples
Program Listings
LiteralLayout
Screen Dialogues
ScreenShot
Figures and Graphics
Figure
Graphics
InlineGraphic
Formal and Informal Tables
Synopses
Synopsis
CmdSynopsis
FuncSynopsis
Formal, Informal, and Inline Equations
3. Inline Content in Documents
Terms and Concepts
Computer Terms
Words and Phrases
Document Information
4. Elements for Nonlinear Relationships
Terms and Concepts
Anchors, Links, and Cross-References
Footnotes and Footnote References
Divisions and Table of Contents Entries
Index Terms and Index Entries
Other Links
5. Miscellaneous Elements
Titles
Comment
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