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Chapter 4. Document Hierarchies

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DocBook makes available several different document hierarchies and a large library of markup for the content of documents. In addition, it offers markup for various kinds of nonlinear information (such as hyperlinks). The following chapters explain how to choose and apply DocBook markup.

DocBook supports several choices of overall document hierarchy that give “shape” to a document:

These structures can be used in combination. For example, a reference entry containing a command's “man page” information might exist in isolation and also appear in a higher-level structure.

Note that you are not constrained to using the top-level structures in DocBook; you can start an SGML document at any level of DocBook's structure, so long as your document element (top-level element) is reflected in the document type name in your DOCTYPE declaration. For example:

<!DOCTYPE Para PUBLIC "-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN">
<Para>
This is an extremely short document, consisting only of a 
single DocBook paragraph.
</Para>


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