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- 6 January 1997
-
- SUMMARY: DocBook Version 3.0 has been released and is now available
- from the Davenport Group's Web site (accessible through
- http://www.ora.com/davenport/index.html and ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/).
-
- * * *
-
- Some of the new and changed features of this version are as follows:
-
- o Reworking of the bibliographic markup to make it more flexible and
- usable.
-
- o New retrieval metadata that applies to whole divisions: flat keywords,
- hierarchical subject topics, and sets of index terms.
-
- o New inline elements: ErrorCode, Prompt, and EnVar.
-
- o Broadening of FuncSynopsis content.
-
- o Broadening of Article content.
-
- o Changeover to the SGML Open CALS full table model.
-
- o New parameterization scheme for the Role attribute that makes it easier
- to customize Role individually for each element.
-
- Current DocBook users should note that a handful of planned
- backwards-incompatible changes have been made. In general, these should
- not adversely affect existing documents. Note also that comments have
- been added to the DTD to reflect the planned backwards-incompatible
- changes that will be made in V4.0 (no delivery date scheduled). There
- is also a 40issues.txt file in the DocBook distribution that summarizes
- these planned changes.
-
- Maintainers and other DTD readers may want to take note of a few small
- name changes that have been made to parameter entities; these may affect
- existing customization layers.
-
- Updated reference documentation for V3.0 is available; fully updated
- maintenance and user's documentation is forthcoming.
-
- You can download the files related to DocBook V3.0 from the following
- locations:
-
- o ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/docbook/docbk30.tar.Z
- (requires tar and uncompress)
-
- o ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/davenport/docbook/docbk30.zip
- (requires pkunzip)
-
- Comments on DocBook are always welcome. You can send comments and
- questions to the Davenport list (davenport@online.ora.com), or directly
- to the maintainers of DocBook, Terry Allen (tallen@fsc.fujitsu.com) and
- Eve Maler (elm@arbortext.com). Thank you.
-