Developing official variants of DocBook in support of the publishing industry

Table of Contents

• Announcements
• Overview
• Technical Work Produced by the SubCommittee
• Expository Work Produced by the SubCommittee
• External Resources
• Mailing Lists and Comments
• Additional Information

Announcements

• The DocBook Publishers Schema has been approved as an OASIS Committee Specification as of August 27, 2010.

Overview

Background

For more than a decade, DocBook has provided a structured markup vocabulary for hardware and software documentation. DocBook is now widely used in both commercial and Open Source environments. DocBook has a very broad element set, and applies to much more than just technical documentation. The DocBook TC is engaged in evolving the suite of DocBook specifications. The community benefits from having a standard, open, interchangeable vocabulary in which to write structured content. DocBook has been, and will continue to be, designed to satisfy this requirement.

The OASIS DocBook SubCommittee for Publishers is chartered to develop and maintain official variants of DocBook in support of the publishing industry. Specifically, the subcommittee will focus on schema and stylesheet customizations to support: periodicals as regularly published technical notes or journals, book publishing (such as business, legal, medical, and other non-technical domains), educational textbooks and other document types as appropriate for this industry.

Scope of Work

This subcommittee will submit additional enhancements back to the full DocBook standard as appropriate. The scope of this DocBook subcommittee is publishing industry content. Broadly, this includes books, journals and other related publications.

This effort will deliver on the following goals:

• Build official DocBook variants, based against the DocBook v5.0 schemas.
• Address issues and enhancement requests that have arisen from experience with real-world DocBook implementations.
• Add support for features specific to the publishing industry.

Technical Work Produced by the Committee

Specification Source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cs-01.xml

Specification PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cs-01.pdf

Specification HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cs-01.html

Zip of CS 01:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers-1.0-spec-cs-01.zip
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers.rnc
http://docs.oasis-open.org/docbook/specs/publishers.dtd

Expository Work Produced by the Committee

External Resources

Although not produced by the OASIS DocBook SubCommitte for Publishers, the following information offers useful insights into its work.

Mailing Lists and Comments

docbook-publishers@lists.oasis-open.org

Email archives are available here: http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/group_public/email/docbook-publishers/

Additional Information

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